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ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SEVENTH EDITION.

Jr THE

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA DICTIONARY OF

ARTS, SCIENCES, AND GENERAL LITERATURE.

SEVENTH EDITION,

WITH PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES, AND

OTHER EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS; INCLUDING THE LATE SUPPLEMENT,

A GENERAL INDEX, AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

VOLUME VI.

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH; M.DCCC.XLII.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

CAL Caldiero II .

Caledonia,

ALDIERO, a town of the delegation of Verona, in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, where ^gj-g are some warm baths. It contains 2250 inhabitants. CALDRON, or CAULDRON, a large kitchen utensil, commonly made of copper ; having a movable iron handle, by which to hang it on the chimney hook. The word is formed from the French chaudron, or rather the Latin /"'I

caldarium.

CALDWALL, RICHARD, a learned English physician, born in Staffordshire about the year 1513. He studied physic in Brazen-nose College, Oxford, and was examined, admitted into, and made censor of, the College of Physicians at London, all in one day. Six weeks afterwards he was chosen one of the elects; and in the year 1570 he was made president of that college. Wood informs us that he wrote several professional pieces; but he does not tell us what they were, only that he translated a book on the art of surgery, written by one Horatio More, a Florentine physician. We learn from Camden, that Caldwall founded a chirurgical lecture in the College of Physicians, and endowed it with a handsome salary. He died in 1585. CALEDONIA, the ancient name of Scotland. From the testimonies of Tacitus, Dio, and Solinus, we find that the ancient Caledonia comprehended all that country situated to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde. In proportion as the Silures or Cimbri advanced northwards, the Caledonians, circumscribed within narrower limits, were forced to pass over into the islands which fringe the western coasts of Scotland. It is about this period, probably, that we ought to fix the first great migration of the British Gael into Ireland; that kingdom being much nearer to the promontory of Galloway and Cantyre than many of the Scottish isles are to the continent of North Britain. To the country which the Caledonians possessed they gave the name of Gael-doch, which is the only appellation the Scots, who speak the Gaelic language, know for their own division of Britain. Gael-doch is a compound formed from Gael, the first colony of the ancient Gauls who transmigrated into Britain, and dock, a district or division of a country. The Romans, by transposing the VOL. VI.

CAL letter l in Gad, and by softening into a Latin termina-Caledonia, tion the ch of dock, formed, it is supposed, the well-known name of Caledonia. At the period when Agricola invaded North Britain, A. D. 81, that portion of the island appears to have been possessed by twenty-one tribes of aboriginal inhabitants having little or no political connection with one another, although evidently identical in origin, in language, in customs, and in manners. The names and topographical positions of these Caledonian tribes or clans have been preserved and pretty accurately ascertained. They were, 1. The Ottadini, or Ottadeni, who occupied the south-east boundary of North Britain, extending along the whole line of coast from the southern Tyne to the Frith of Forth, and including the half of Northumberland, the eastern part of Roxburghshire, and the whole of Berwickshire and of East Lothian ; 2. The Gadeni, who inhabited the interior of the country, to the west of the Ottadini, including the western part of Northumberland, a small part of Cumberland to the north of the Irthing, the western part of Roxburghshire, the whole of Selkirkshire, Tweeddale, a considerable part of Mid-Lothian, and nearly all West-Lothian; their possessions extending from the Tyne on the south to the Frith of Forth on the north ; 3. The Selgovce, who inhabited Annandale, Nithsdale, and Eskdale in Dumfriesshire, and the eastern part of Galloway as far as the river Deva or Dee, which was their western boundary ; 4. The Novantce, who possessed the middle and western parts of Galloway, from the Dee on the east to the Irish Sea on the west; on the south they were bounded by the Solway Frith and the Irish Sea, and on the north by the chain of hills which separates Galloway from Carrick; 5. The Damnii, the most important of the southern tribes, who inhabited the whole extent of country from the ridge of hills which separates Galloway frcju Ayrshire on the south, to the river Erne on the north, and possessed all Strathclyde, the shires of Ayr, Renfrew, and Stirling, and a small part of those of Dumbarton and Perth ; 6. The Horestii, who inhabited the country between Bodotria or Forth on the south, and the Tavus or Tay on the north, comprehending the shires of Clackmannan, Kinross, and Fife, with the eastern part of Strathern, and A

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CAL the country westward of the Tay as far as the river Brann ; 7. The Venricones, who possessed the territory between the Tay on the south and the Carron on the north, comprehending Gowrie, Strathmore, Stormont, and Strathardle in Perthshire, together with the whole of Angus, and the larger part of Kincardineshire ; £• The Taixali, who inhabited the northern part of the Mearns, and the whole of Aberdeenshire as far as the Doveran ; 9. The Vacomagi, who inhabited the country on the south side of the Moray Frith, from the Doveran on the east to the Ness on the west, comprehending the shires of Banff, Elgin, Nairn, the eastern part of Inverness, and Braemar in Aberdeenshire ; 10. The Albani, afterwards called Damnii-Albani, who possessed the interior districts between the lower ridge of the Grampians, which skirts the southern side of the loch and river Tay on the south, and the chain of mountains which forms the southern limit of Inverness-shire on the north ; 11. The Attacoti, who inhabited the whole of the country from Lochfyne on the west to the eastwaid of the river Leven and Lochlomond, comprehending the whole of Cowal in Argyleshire and the greater part of Dumbartonshire ; 12. The CALEDONII proper,1 who inhabited the whole of the interior of the country from the ridge of mountains which separates Inverness and Perth on the south, to the range of hills which forms the forest of Balnagowan in Ross on the north, comprehending all the middle parts of Inverness and Ross ; 13. The Canto;, who possessed the east of Ross from the Moray Frith on the south to the Frith of Dornoch on the north ; 14. The Logi, who possessed the south-eastern coast of Sutherland, extending from the Dornoch Frith on the south-west to the Helmsdale river on the east; 15. The Carnabii, who inhabited the south, the east, and the north-east of Caithness, from the Helmsdale river, comprehending the three great promontories of Noss-head, Duncansbay-head, and Dunnethead; 16. The Cattini, a small tribe, who inhabited the north-western corner of Caithness, and the eastern half of Strathnaver in Sutherlandshire, having the river Naver, the Navarijluvius of Ptolemy, for their western boundary ; 17. The Mertce, who occupied the interior of Sutherland ; 18. The Carnonaco, who inhabited the northern and western coast of Sutherland, and a small part of the western shore of Ross, from the Naver on the east to the Volsas bay on the south-west; 19. The Craves, who inhabited the western coast of Ross, from the Volsas bay on the north to Lochduich on the south ; 20. The Cerones, who inhabited the whole western coast of Inverness, and the districts of Ardnamurchan, Morvern, Sunart, and Ardgower in Argyleshire, having Lochduich on the north, and the Linne-loch on the south ; and, 21. The Epidii, who inhabited the south-west of Argyleshire, from Linne-loch on the north, to the Frith of Clyde and the Irish Sea on the south, including Cantyre, and were bounded on the east by the country of the Albani, and by Lochfyne. Such, according to the best authorities, were the names and geographical positions of the twenty-one tribes which, at the time of the Roman invasion, occupied the whole of North Britain. When the tribes of North Britain were attacked by the Romans under Agricola (see article BRITAIN, chap, i.), they entered into associations, in order that, by uniting their strength, they might be more able to repel the common enemy. But the particular name of the tribe which either its superior power or military reputation placed at the head of the association, was the general name given by the Romans to all the confederates. Hence it is that the Monata;, who inhabited the districts of Scotland lying

CAL southward of the frith, and the Caledonians, who inhabit- Caledonia ed the west and north-west parts, engrossed the glory which II belonged in common, though in an inferior degree, to the Calenberg. other tribes settled of old in North Britain. The origin of the appellations Scoti and Picti, introduced by the later Roman authors, has occasioned much controversy among antiquaries in modern times. It seems tolerably certain, however, that the Scots and Piets were one and the same people; or rather, that the term Picti or Piets was the generic, and that of Scoti, or Scots, only a specific appellation. Eumenius the orator, who first mentions the Piets, alludes to the Caledones aliique Picti; an expression which implies that the Caledones and other tribes were considered as Piets. Again, with reference to the question whether the Scots were aboriginal Britons, or merely emigrants from Ireland, it has been shown by arguments which appear to be invincible, that they came originally from Ireland; but, on the other hand, it seems equally certain, that the Scots of Ireland, or the Scotico gentes of Porphyry, a branch of the great Celtic family, passed over, at a very remote period, from the shores of Britain into Ireland, and before the beginning of the fifth century had given their name to the whole of that country. Their name, however, does not occur in the Roman annals till A. D. 360; but all the authors of the fourth century agree that Ireland was the proper country of the Scots, and that they invaded the Roman territories in North Britain about the period above mentioned. They are described as an erratic or wandering race, who carried on a predatory system of warfare, and also as a transmarine people, who came from Ireland, their native island. Under the denomination of Piets were included the Caledonians and Scots, and probably also the Attacots, a warlike clan, settled on the shores of Dumbarton and Cowal. See SCOTLAND. CALEDONIA, the name of a settlement made by the Scots on the western side of the Gulf of Darien in 1698, out of which they were starved at the request of the East India Company. New CALEDONIA, an island in the South Sea, discovered by Captain Cook. See AUSTRALASIA. ‘ CALEDONIAN CANAL. See NAVIGATION INLAND, and SCOTLAND.

CALEFACTION, the production of heat in a body from the action of fire, or that impulse impressed by a hot body on others around it. CALELLA, a town of Spain, on the sea-coast, in the province of Catalonia, with 2400 inhabitants, who are employed in distilling brandy and wine, in casting anchors, and in making fishing nets, lace, and blonde. CALENBERG, a principality or duchy in the kingdom of Hanover. It is bounded on the north-east by Luneburg; on the south-east by Hildesheim ; on the south by Brunswdek, the Prussian circle of Minden, and Pyrmont; and on the wrest by Lippe, Schaumburg, and Hoj^a. It is 1090 square miles, or 667,800 English acres, in extent; and contains a population of 151,000 persons. The city of Hanover is the capital of the principality, as well as of the kingdom. The southern part is generally hilly, but with broad valleys interposed. The northern division is part of that sandy plain which extends through the Continent, and is of little fertility except in a- few spots. The principal products are corn, cattle, buttex , and liax; and the latter, made into yarn or cloth, is almost the only article manufactured for exportation. The river Weser flows through one part ofthis principality; and the Leine, which also passes through it, has by great efforts been made navigable.

1 This name, according to Chalmers, is merely the latinized form of Celyddoni, from Celyddon, the country by the British colonists, and signifying literally the Coverts.

the descriptive appellation given to

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CALENDAR. Calendar. A CALENDAR is a method of distributing time into cer—tain periods adapted to the purposes of civil life, as hours, days, weeks, months, years, &c. Of all the periods marked out by the motions of the celestial bodies, the most conspicuous, and the most intimately connected with the affairs of mankind, are the solar day, which is distinguished by the diurnal revolution of the earth and the alternation of light and darkness, and the solar year, which completes the circle of the seasons. But in the early ages of the world, when mankind were chiefly engaged in rural occupations, the phases of the moon must have been objects of great attention and interest; hence the month, and the practice adopted by many nations of reckoning time by the motions of the moon, as well as the still more general practice of combining lunar with solar periods. The solar day, the solar year, and the lunar month, or lunation, may therefore be called the natural divisions of time. All others, as the hour, the week, and the civil month, though of the most ancient and general use, are only arbitrary and conventional. Day.—The true solar day is the interval of time which elapses between two consecutive returns of the same terrestrial meridian to the sun, and therefore, by reason of the inclined position of the ecliptic, and the unequal progressive motion of the earth in its orbit, is not always of the same absolute length. But as it would be hardly possible, in the artificial measurement of time, to have regard to this small inequality, which is besides constantly varying, the mean solar day is employed for all civil purposes. This is the time in which the earth would make one revolution on its axis, as compared with the sun, if the earth moved at an equable rate in the plane of the equator. The mean solar day is therefore a result of computation, and not marked by any astronomical phenomenon ; but its difference from the true solar or apparent day is so small as to escape ordinary observation. The subdivision of the day into twenty-four parts, or hours, has prevailed since the remotest ages, though different nations have not agreed either with respect to the epoch of its commencement or the manner of distributing the hours. Europeans in general, like the ancient Egyptians, place the commencement of the civil day at midnight, and reckon twelve morning hours from midnight to midday, and twelve evening hours from midday to midnight. Astronomers, after the example of Ptolemy, regard the day as commencing with the sun’s culmination, or noon, and find it most convenient for the purposes of computation to reckon through the whole twenty-four hours. Hipparchus reckoned the twenty-four hours from midnight to midnight. Some nations, as the ancient Chaldeans and the modern Greeks, have chosen sunrise for the commencement of the day; others, again, as the Italians and Bohemians, suppose it to commence at sunset. In all these cases the beginning of the day varies with the seasons at all places not under the equator. In the early ages of Rome, and even down to the middle of the fifth century after the foundation of the city, no other divisions of the day were known than sunrise, sunset, and midday, which was marked by the arrival of the sun between the Rostra and a place called Graecostasis, where ambassadors from Greece and other countries used to stand. The Greeks divided the natural day and night into twelve equal parts each, and the hours thus formed were denominated temporary hours, from their varying in length according to the seasons of the year. The hours of the day

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and night were of course only equal at the time of the equi- Calendar, noxes. The whole period of day and night they called vu%dr]/iiegov. Week.—The

week is a period of seven days, having no reference whatever to the celestial motions; a circumstance to which it owes its unalterable uniformity. Although it did not enter into the calendar of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of Theodosius, it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all eastern countries; and as it forms neither an aliquot part of the year nor of the lunar month, those who reject the Mosaic recital will be at a loss, as Delambre remarks, to assign to it an origin having much semblance of probability. It might have been suggested by the phases of the moon, or by the number of the planets known in ancient times, an origin which is rendered more probable from the names universally given to the dilferent days of which it is composed. In the Egyptian astronomy, the order of the planets, beginning with the most remote, is Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon. Now, the day being divided into twenty-four hours, each hour was consecrated to a particular planet, namely, one to Saturn, the following to Jupiter, the third to Mars, and so on according to the above order; and the day received the name of the planet which presided over its first hour. If, then, the first hour of a day was consecrated to Saturn, that planet would also have the 8th, the 15th, and the 22d hour; the 23d would fall to Jupiter, the 24th to Mars, and the 25th, or the first hour of the second day, would belong to the Sun. In like manner the first hour of the 3d day would fall to the Moon, the first of the 4th day to Mars, of the 5th to Mercury, of the 6th to Jupiter, and of the 7th to Venus. The cj^cle being completed, the first hour of the 8th day would return to Saturn, and all the others succeed in the same order. According to Dio Cassius, the Egyptian week commenced with Saturday. On their flight from Egypt, the Jews, from hatred to their ancient oppressors, made Saturday the last day of the week. The English names of the days are derived from the Saxon. The ancient Saxons had borrowed the week from some eastex-n nation, and substituted the names of their own divinities for those of the gods of Greece. In legislative and justiciary acts the Latin names are still retained. Latin.

English.

Saxon.

Dies Solis. Sunday. Sun’s day. Dies Lunae. Monday Moon’s day. Dies Martis. Tuesday. Tiw’s day. Dies Mercurii. Wednesday. Woden’s day Dies Jovis. Thursday. Thor’s day. Dies Veneris. Friday. Friga’s day. Dies Saturni. Saturday. Seterne’s day. Month.—Long before the exact length of the year was determined, it must have been perceived that the synodic revolution of the moon is accomplished in about 29^ days. Twelve lunations, therefoi’e, form a period of 354 days, which differs only by about 114 days from the solar year. From this circumstance has arisen the practice, perhaps universal, of dividing the year into twelve months. But in the course of a few years the accumulated difference between the solar year and twelve lunar months would become considerable, and have the effect of transporting the commencement of the year to a different season. The difficulties that arose in attempting to avoid this inconvenience induced some nations to abandon the moon alto-

CALENDAR. Calendar, gether, and regulate their year by the course of the sun. and so on to the 30th, which was called the third before the Calendar. , ^Y^/ The month, however, being a convenient period of time, Calends (tertio Calendas), the last being the second of has retained its place in the calendars of all nations; but, the Calends, or the day before the Calends (jrridie Cainstead of denoting a synodic revolution of the moon, it is lendas'). As frequent allusion is made by classical writers usually employed to denote an arbitrary number of days to this embarrassing method of computation, which is carefully retained in the ecclesiastical calendar, we will approaching to the twelfth part of a solar year, Among the ancient Egyptians, the month consisted of here give a table showing the correspondence of the Rothirty days invariably; and in order to complete the year, man months with those of modern Europe, five days were added at the end, called supplementary days. They made use of no intercalation, and by losing a April. March. O C January. fourth of a day every year, the commencement of the June. May. Februarv. August. September. July. year went back one day in every period of four years, and p s December. November. October. consequently made a revolution of the seasons in 1461 years. Hence 1461 Egyptian years are equal to 1460 Calendae. Calendse. Calendae. Calendse 1 Julian years of 365^ days each. This year is called vague, 4 4 4 6 2 by reason of its commencing sometimes at one season of 3 3 3 5 3 the year, and sometimes at another. 4 Prid. Nonas Prid. Nonas. Prid. Nonas. 4 The Greeks divided the month into three decades, or Nonae. Nonae. 3 Nonae. 5 periods of ten days; a practice which was imitated by 8 8 8 Prid. Nonas 6 the French in their unsuccessful attempt to introduce a 7 7 7 Nonse. 7 new calendar at the period of the revolution. This divi6 6 6 8 8 sion offers two advantages; the first is, that the period is 5 5 5 7 9 an exact measure of the month of thirty days; and the 4 4 4 6 10 second is, that the number of tbe day of the decade is 3 3 3 5 11 connected with and suggests the number of tbe day of Prid. Idus. Prid. Idus. Prid. Idus. 4 12 the month. For example, the 5th of the decade must Idus. Idus. Idus. 3 13 necessarily be the 5th, the 15th, or the 25th of the month ; 16 18 19 14 Prid. Idus. so that when the day of the decade is known, that of the 15 17 18 Idus. 15 month can scarcely be mistaken. In reckoning by weeks, 14 16 17 17 16 it is necessary to keep in mind the day of the week on 13 15 16 16 17 which each month begins. 12 14 15 15 18 The Romans employed a division of the month and a 11 13 14 14 19 method of reckoning the days which appears not a little 10 12 13 13 20 extraordinary, and must, in practice, have been exceed9 11 12 12 21 ingly incommodious. Instead of distinguishing the days 8 10 11 11 22 by the ordinal numbers first, second, third, &c. they count7 9 10 10 23 ed backwards from three fixed epochs, namely, the Ca6 8 9 9 24 lends, the Nones, and the Ides. The Calends were placed 5 7 8 8 25 invariably on the first day of the month, and were so de4 6 7 7 26 nominated because it had been an ancient custom of the 3 5 6 6 27 pontiffs to call the people together on that day, to apprize 2 4 5 5 28 them of the festivals, or days that were to be kept sacred Prid. Calen 3 4 4 29 during the month. The Ides (from an obsolete verb iduPrid. Calen Martii. 3 3 30 are, to divide) were at the middle of the month, either 31 Prid. Calen Prid. Calen the 13th or the 15th day; and the Nones were the ninth before the Ides, counting inclusively. From these three _ , terms the days received their denomination in the followYear.—The year is either astronomical or civil. I he ing manner:—Those which were comprised between the solar astronomical year is the period of time in which the Calends and the Nones were called the days before the earth performs a revolution about the sun, or passes from Nones; those between the Nones and the Ides were called any point of the ecliptic to the same point again ; and conthe days before the Ides; and, lastly, all the days after the sists of 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 49-62 seconds of Ides to the end of the month were called the days before mean solar time. The civil year is that which is employed the Calends of the succeeding month. In the months of in chronology, and varies among different nations, both in March, May, July, and October, the Ides fell on the 15th respect of the season at which it commences, and of its day, and the Nones consequently on the 7th; so that subdivisions. When regard is had to the suns motion each of these months had six days named from the Nones, alone, the regulation of the year, and the distribution of In all the other months the Ides were on the 13th and the days into months, may be effected without much the Nones on the 5th ; consequently there were only four trouble ; but the difficulty is greatly increased when it is days named from the Nones. Every month had eight sought to reconcile solar and lunar periods, or to make days named from the Ides. The number of days re- the subdivisions of the year depend on the moon, and at ceiving their denomination from the Calends depended the same time to preserve the correspondence between the on the number of days in the month and the day on whole year and the seasons. Of the Solar Year.—In the arrangement of the civil which the Ides fell. For example, if the month contained 31 days, and the Ides fell on the 13th, as was the year, two objects are sought to be accomplished: the case in January, August, and December, there would first is, the equable distribution of the days among twelve remain 18 days after the Ides, which, added to the first months ; and the second is, the preservation of the beginof the following month, made 19 days of Calends. In ning of the year at the same distance from the solstices January, therefore, the 14th day of the month was called or equinoxes. Now, as the year consists of 365 days and the nineteenth before the Calends of February (counting a fraction, and 365 is a number not divisible by 12, it is inclusively), the 15th was the 18th before the Calends, impossible that the months can all be of the same length,

CALENDAR, Calendar, and at the same time include all the days of the year, v—'-y-w' By reason also of the fractional excess of the length of the year above 365 days, it likewise happens that the years cannot all contain the same number of days if the epoch of their commencement remains fixed; for the day and the civil year must necessarily be considered as beginning at the same instant; and therefore the extra hours cannot be included in the year till they have accumulated to a whole day. As soon as this has taken place, an additional day must be given to the year. The civil calendar of all European countries has been borrowed from that of the Romans. Romulus is said to have divided the year into ten months only, including in all 304> days, and it is not very well known how the remaining days were disposed of. The ancient Roman year commenced with March, as is indicated by the names September, October, November, December, which the four last months still retain. July and August, likewise, were anciently denominated Quintilis and Sextilis, their present appellations having been bestowed in compliment to Julius Caesar and Augustus. In the reign of Numa two months were added to the year, January at the beginning, and February at the end ; and this arrangement continued till the year 452 c. c., when the Decemvirs changed the order of the months, and placed February after January. The months now consisted of twenty-nine and thirty days alternately, to correspond with the synodic revolution of the moon, so that the year contained 354 days; but a day was added to make the number odd, which was considered more fortunate, and the year therefore consisted of 355 days. This differed from the solar year by ten whole days and a fraction ; but, to restore the coincidence, Numa ordered an additional or intercalary month to be inserted every second year between the 23d and 24th of February, consisting of twenty-two and twenty-three days alternately, so that four years contained 1465 days, and the mean length of the year was consequently 366^ days. The additional month was called Mercedinus, or Mercedonius, from merces, wages, probably because the wages of workmen and domestics were usually paid at this season of the year. Accordihg to the above arrangement, the year was too long by one day, which rendered another correction necessary. As the error amounted to twenty-four days in as many years, it was ordered that every third period of eight years, instead of containing four intercalary months, amounting in all to ninety days, should contain only three of those months, consisting of twenty-two days each. The mean length of the year was thus reduced to 365^ days; but it is not certain at what time the octennial periods, borrowed from the Greeks, were introduced into the Roman calendar, or whether they were at any time strictly followed. It does not even appear that the length of the intercalary month was regulated by any certain principle, for a discretionary power was left with the pontiffs, to whom the care of the calendar was committed, to intercalate more or fewer days according as the year was found to differ more or less from the celestial motions. This power was quickly abused to serve political objects, and the calendar consequently thrown into confusion. By giving a greater or less number of days to the intercalary month, the pontiffs were enabled to prolong the term of a magistracy, or hasten the annual elections ; and so little care had been taken to regulate the year, that, at the time of Julius Caesar, the civil equinox differed from the astronomical by three months, so that the, winter months were carried back into autumn, and the autumnal into summer. In order to put an end to the disorders arising from the negligence or ignorance of the pontiffs, Caesar abolished the use of the lunar year and the intercalary month, and

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regulated the civil year entirely by the sun. With the Calendar, advice and assistance of Sosigenes, he fixed the mean length of the year at 365^ days, and decreed that every fourth year should have 366 days, the other years having each 365. In order to restore the vernal equinox to the 25th of March, the place it occupied in the time of Numa, he ordered two extraordinary months to be inserted between November and December in the current year, the first to consist of thirty-three, and the second of thirty-four days. The intercalary month of twenty-three days fell into the year of course, so that the ancient year of 355 days received an augmentation of ninety days; and the year on that occasion contained in all 445 days. This was called the last year of confusion. The first Julian year commenced with the 1st of January of the 46th before the birth of Christ, and the 708th from the foundation of the city. In the distribution of the days through the several months, Caesar adopted a simpler and more commodious arrangement than that which has since prevailed. He had ordered that the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh months, that is January, March, May, July, September, and November, should have each thirty-one days, and the other months thirty, excepting February, which in common years should have only twenty-nine, but every fourth year thirty days. This order was interrupted to gratify the vanity of Augustus, by giving the month bearing his name as many days as July, which was named after the first Caesar. A day was accordingly taken from February and given to August; and in order that three months of thirty-one days might not come together, September and November were reduced to thirty days, and thirty-one given to October and December. For so frivolous a reason was the regulation of Caesar abandoned, and a capricious arrangement introduced, which it requires some pains to remember. The additional day which occurred every fourth year was given to February, as being the shortest month, and was inserted in the calendar between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth day. February having then twenty-nine days, the twenty-fifth was the sixth of the calends of March, sexto calendas ; the preceding, which was the additional or intercalary day, was called bis-sexto calendas, hence the term bissextile, which is still emplojmd to distinguish the year of 366 days. The English denomination of Leap- Year would have been more appropriate if that year had differed from common years in defect, and contained only 364 days. In the ecclesiastical calendar the intercalary day is still placed between the 24th and 25th of February ; in the civil calendar it is the 29th. The regulations of Cmsar were not at first sufficiently understood; and the pontiffs, by intercalating every third year instead of every fourth, at the end of thirty-six years had intercalated twelve times instead of nine. This mistake having been discovered, Augustus ordered that all the years from the thirty-seventh of the era to the forty-eighth inclusive should be common years, by which means the intercalations were reduced to the proper number of twelve in forty-eight years. No account is taken of this blunder in chronology ; and it is tacitly supposed that the calendar has been correctly followed from its commencement. Although the Julian method of intercalation is perhaps the most convenient that could be adopted, yet, as it supposes the year too long by 11 minutes 10-35 seconds, it could not without correction very long answer the purpose for which it was devised, namely, that of preserving always the same interval of time between the commencement of the year and the equinox. Sosigenes could scarcely fail to know that his year was too long; for it had been shown

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CALENDAR.

Calendar, long before, by the observations of Hipparchus, that the excess of 3651 (layS above a true solar year would amount to a day in 300 years. The real error is indeed more than double of this, and amounts to a day in 129 years; hut in the time of Caesar the length of the year was an astronomical element not very well determined. In the course of a few centuries, however, the equinox sensibly retrograded towards the beginning of the year. When the Julian calendar was introduced, the equinox fell on the 25th of March. At the time of the Council of Nice, which was held in 325, it fell on the 21st; and when the reformation was made in 1582, it had retrograded to the 11th. In order to restore the equinox to its former place, Pope Gregory XIII. directed ten days to be suppressed in the calendar; and as the error of the Julian intercalation was now found to amount to three days in 400 years, he ordered the intercalations to be omitted on all the centenary years excepting those which are multiples of 400. According to the Gregorian rule of intercalation, therefore, every year of which the number is divisible by four without a remainder, is a leap year, excepting the centurial years, which are only leap years when divisible by four after suppressing the two zeros. Thus 1600 was a leap year, but 1700, 1800, and 1900, are common years; 2000 will be a leap year, and so on. As the Gregorian method of intercalation has been adopted in all Christian countries, Russia excepted, it becomes interesting to examine with Vhat degree of accuracy it reconciles the civil with the solar year. According to the best determinations of modern astronomy (Bailli’s Tables, p. 16), the solar year consists of 365 days 5 h. 48 min. 49,62 sec. or 365’242241 days. Now the Gregorian rule gives 97 intercalations in 400 years; 400 years therefore contain 365 X 400-f97> that is, 146,097 days; and consequently one year contains 365'2425 days, or 365 d. 5 h. 49 min. 12 sec. This exceeds the true solar year by 22*38 seconds, which amount to a day in 3866 years. It is perhaps unnecessary to make any formal provision against an error which can only happen after so long a period of time; but as 3866 differs little from 4000, it has been proposed to correct the Gregorian rule by making the year 4000 and all its multiples common years. With this correction the rule of intercalation is as follows :— Every year the number of which is divisible by 4 is a leap year; excepting the last year of each century, which is a leap year only when the number of the century is divisible by 4: but 4000, and its multiples, 8000, 12,000, 16,000, &c. are common years. Thus the uniformity of the intercalation, by continuing to depend on the number four, is preserved, and by adopting the last correction the commencement of the year would not vary more than a day from its present place in a thousand centuries. In order to discover whether the coincidence of the civil and solar year could not be restored in shorter periods by a different method of intercalation, we may proceed as follows:—The fraction 0.242241, which expresses the excess of the solar year above a whole number of days, being converted into a continued fraction, becomes 1

4+1 7+1

T+i 4+1 7+1 1 + , &c. which gives the series of approximating fractions, 1 7 8 39 281 320 4’ 29’ 33’ 161’ 1160’ 1321*

The first of these gives the Julian intercalation of one day Calendar, in four years, and is considerably too great. It supposes s***~^-*mJ the year to contain 365 days 6 hours. The second gives seven intercalary days in twenty-nine years, and errs in defect, as it supposes a year of 365 d. 5 h. 47 min. 35 sec. The third gives eight intercalations in thirty-three years, or seven successive intercalations at the end of four years respectively, and the eighth at the end of five years. This supposes the year to contain 365 d. 5 h. 49. min. 5*45 sec. The fourth fraction, ™ = _f§+L = ’X ’161 132 + 29 4 X 33 + 29’ combines four periods of thirty-three years with one of twenty-nine, and would consequently be very inconvenient in application. It supposes the year to consist of 365 d. 5 h. 48 min. 49*19 sec. The fifth gives 281 intercalary days in 1160 years, aiid supposes a year of 365 d. 5 h. 49*19 sec. rp, . ,320 960 1 he sixth, gives 960 intercalary days in 3963 years, whereas the Gregorian rule gives 961 in that time. It gives a year of 365 d. 5 h. 48 min. 49*59 sec., differing from the true solar year only by three-hundredths of a second. The fraction yy offers a convenient and very accurate method of intercalation. It implies a year differing in excess from the true year only by 15*38 seconds, while the Gregorian year is too long by 25*38 seconds. In a period of thirtythree years, therefore, it produces a nearer coincidence between the civil and solar years than the Gregorian method in 400 years ; and, by reason of its shortness, confines the evagations of the mean equinox from the true within much narrower limits. It has been stated by Scaliger, Weidlar, Montucla, and others, that the modern Persians actually follow this method, and intercalate eight days in thirtythree years. The statement has, however, been contested on good authority; and it seems proved (see Delambre, Astronomie Moderne, tom. i. p. 81) that the Persian 7 8 intercalation combines the two periods — and yy. If they follow the combination

7 + 4X8

294

x

33

=

39 Jei’ the^r determi-

nation of the length of the tropical year has been extremely exact. The discovery of the period of thirty-three years is ascribed to Omar Cheyam, one of the eight astronomers appointed by Gelal-Eddin Malech Schah, sultan of Khorassan, to reform or construct a calendar, about the year 1079 of our era. If the commencement of the year, instead of being retained at the same place in the seasons by a uniform method of intercalation, were made tp depend on astronomical phenomena, the intercalations would succeed each other in an irregular manner, sometimes after four years and sometimes after five; and it would occasionally, though rarely indeed, happen, that it would be impossible to determine the day on which the year ought to begin. In the calendar, for example, which was attempted to be introduced in France in 1793, the beginning of the year was fixed at the midnight preceding the day in which the true autumnal equinox falls. But supposing the instant of the sun’s entering into the sign Libra to be very near midnight, the small errors of the solar tables might render it doubtful to which day the equinox really belonged; and it would be in vain to have recourse to observation to obviate the difficulty. It is therefore infinitely more commodious to determine the commencement of the year by a fixed rule of intercalation; and of the various methods

CALENDAR. which might be employed, no one, perhaps, is on the whole correspondence between the civil month and the lunation, Calendar. 'V'*"’" more easy of application, or better adapted for the pur- Meton divided the cycle into 125 full months of thirty poses of computation, than the Gregorian. days, and 110 deficient months of twenty-nine days each. Of the Lunar Year and Luni-solar Periods.—The lunar The number of days in the period was therefore 6940. In year, consisting of twelve lunar months, contains only 354 order to distribute the deficient months through the pedays ; its commencement consequently anticipates that of riod in the most equable manner, the whole period may the solar year by eleven days, and passes through the be regarded as consisting of 235 full months of thirty whole circle of the seasons in about thirty-four lunar years. days, or of 7050 days, from which 110 days are to be deIt is therefore so obviously ill adapted to the computation ducted. This gives one day to be suppressed in sixtyof time, that, excepting the modern Jews and Mahomme- four; so that if we suppose the months to contain each dans, almost all nations who have regulated their months thirty days, and then omit every sixty-fourth day in reckby the moon have employed some method of intercalation oning from the beginning of the period, those months in by means of which the beginning of the year is retained at which the omission takes place will be the deficient months nearly the same fixed place in the seasons. of course. In the early ages of Greece the year was regulated enThe number of days in the period being known, it is tirely by the moon. Solon divided the year into twelve eaSy to ascertain its accuracy both in respect of the solar months, consisting alternately of twenty-nine and thirty and lunar motions. The exact length of nineteen solar days, the former of which were called deficient months, and years is 19 X 365*24224 = 6939*60156 days, or 6939 days the latter full months. The lunar year, therefore, contain- 14 hours 26*275 minutes; hence the period, which is exed 354 days, exceeding the exact time of twelve lunations actly 6940 days, exceeds nineteen revolutions of the sun by about 8‘8 hours. The first expedient adopted to recon- by nine and a half hours nearly. On the other hand, cile the lunar and solar years seems to have been the the exact time of a synodic revolution of the moon addition of a month of thirty days to every second year. is 29*5305887 days; 235 lunations, therefore, contain Two lunar years would thus contain 25 months, or 738 235 X 29*5305887 =r 6939*68834 days, or 6939 days 16 days, while two solar years, of 365^ days each, contain hours 31*2 minutes, so that the period exceeds 235 luna7301 Jays. The difference of 7-1 days was still too great tions only by seven and a half hours. to escape observation; it was accordingly proposed by After the Metonic cycle had been in use about a cenCleostratus of Tenedos, who flourished shortly after the tury, a correction was proposed by Calippus. At the end time of Thales, to omit the biennary intercalation every of four cycles, or seventy-six years, the accumulation of eighth year. In fact, the 7^ days by which two lunar the seven and a half hours of difference between the cycle years exceeded two solar years, amounted to thirty days, and 235 lunations amounts to thirty hours, or one whole or a full month, in eight years. By inserting, therefore, day and six hours. Calippus, therefore, proposed to quadthree additional months instead of four in every period of ruple the period of Meton, and deduct one day at the eight years, the coincidence between the solar and lunar end of that time by changing one of the full months into year would have been exactly restored if the latter had a deficient month. The period of Calippus, therefore, contained only 354 days, inasmuch as the period contains consisted of three Metonic cycles of 6940 days each, and 354 X 8 + 3 X 30 =: 2922 days, corresponding with eight a period of 6939 days; and its error in respect of the moon, solar years of 3651 days each. But the true time of 99 consequently, amounted only to six hours, or to one day in lunations is 2923'528 days, which exceeds the above pe- 304 years. This period exceeds seventy-six true solar riod by 1*528 days, or thirty-six hours and a few minutes. years by fourteen hours and a quarter nearly, but coincides At the end of two periods, or sixteen years, the excess is exactly with seventy-six Julian years; and in the time of three days, and at the end of 160 years, thirty days. It Calippus the length of the solar year was almost univerwas therefore proposed to employ a period of 160 years, sally supposed to be exactly 3651 days. The Calippic in which one of the intercalary months should be omitted ; period is frequently referred to as a date by Ptolemy. but as this period was too long to be of any practical use, The Mahommedan Year, which is regulated entirely by it was never generally adopted. The common practice the moon, consists of twelve months, containing twentywas to make occasional corrections as they became neces- nine and thirty days alternately; and in order to preserve sary, in order to preserve the relation between the octen- the correspondence between the civil month and the lunial period and the state of the heaven ; but these correc- nation, a method of intercalation is employed, which, in tions being left to the care of incompetent persons, the ca- point of accuracy, could scarcely be surpassed. The lendar soon fell into great disorder, and no certain rule moon’s synodic revolution is performed in 29 days 12 was followed till a new division of the year was proposed hours 44 min. 2*8 sec.*, whereas the civil month supposes by Meton and Euctemon, which was immediately adopted it only 291 days. Now the excess, which is 44 min. 2*8 in all the states and dependencies of Greece. sec., amounts to 8 hours 48 min. 35*6 sec. in a year, and, The Metonic Cycle, which may be regarded as the chef neglecting the seconds, to 264 hours, or eleven days, in d'ceuvre of ancient astronomy, is a period of nineteen solar thirty years. Hence, eleven times in thirty years one day years, after which the new moons again happen on the is added to the last month; so that in a period of thirty same days of the year. In nineteen solar years there are years there are nineteen simple years of 354 days and 235 lunations, a number which, on being divided by nine- eleven intercalary years of 355 days. The average length teen, gives twelve lunations for each year, with seven of a of the year, therefore, differs from twelve lunations only remainder, to be distributed among the years of the pe- by 35*6 seconds. The eleven intercalary years are the riod. The period of Meton, therefore, consisted of twelve second, fifth, seventh, tenth, thirteenth, sixteenth, eighyears, containing twelve months each, and seven years teenth, twenty-first, twenty-fourth, twenty-sixth, and containing thirteen months each; and these last formed twenty-ninth, of each cycle of thirty years. the third, fifth, eighth, eleventh, thirteenth, sixteenth, and For an account of the year adopted by the Jews, Chinese, nineteenth years of the cycle. As it had now been dis- Indians, and some other nations, and of the correspondence covered that the exact length of the lunation is a little of their eras and epochs with those employed by Euromore than twenty-nine and a half days, it became neces- peans, the reader may consult the article CHRONOLOGY. sary to abandon the alternate succession of full and deEcclesiastical Calendar.—The ecclesiastical calendar, ficient months; and, in order to preserve a more accurate which is adopted in all the Catholic, and most of the Pro-

Calendar,

8 Calendar,

CALENDAR, testant countries of Europe, is luni-solar, being regulated number of years in the intercalary period being four, and Calendar, partly by the solar, and partly by the lunar year; a cir- the days of the week being seven, their product is 4 >< 7=28; cumstance which gives rise to the distinction between the twenty-eight years is therefore a period which includes movable and immovable feasts. So early as the second all the possible combinations of the days of the week with century of our era, great disputes had arisen among the the commencement of the year. This period is called the Christians respecting the proper time of celebrating Eas- Solar Cycle, or the Cycle of the Sun, and restores the first ter, which governs all the other movable feasts. I he day of the year to the same day of the week. At the end Jews celebrated their passover on the 14th day of the of the cycle the dominical letters return again in the sanm first month, that is to say, the lunar month of which the order on the same days of the month; hence a table of fourteenth day either falls on, or next follows, the day of dominical letters, constructed for twenty-eight years, will the vernal equinox. Most Christian sects agreed that serve to show the dominical letter of any given year from Easter should be celebrated on a Sunday. Others follow- the commencement of the era to the reformation. I he ed the example of the Jews, and adhered to the 14th of cycle, though probably not invented before the time of the the moon ; but these, as usually happened to the minority, council of Nice, is regarded as having commenced nine years were accounted heretics, and received the appellation of before the era, so that the year one was the tenth of the solar Quarto-decimantes. In order to terminate dissensions, cycle. To find the year of the cycle, we have therefore which produced both scandal and schism in the church, the following rule: Add nine to the date, divide the sum by the council of Nice, which was held in the year 32o, or- twenty-eight; the quotient is the number of cycles elapsed, and dained that the celebration of Easter should thenceforth the remainder is the year of the cycle. Should there be no always take place on the Sunday which immediately fol- remainder, the proposed year is the twenty-eighth or last lows the full moon that happens upon, or next after, the of the cycle. This rule is conveniently expressed by the day of the vernal equinox. Should the fourteenth of the formula (X —^ , in which x denotes the date, and the \ 28 /r moon, which is regarded as the day of full moon, happen on a Sunday, the celebration of Easter was deferred to symbol r denotes that the remainder, which arises from the the Sunday following, in order to avoid concurrence with division of a; + 9by 28, is the number required. Thus, for the Jews and the above-mentioned heretics. The obser1840 + 9 f1840 + 9\ P = 66^, therefore ^Jr vance of this rule renders it necessary to reconcile three 1840, we have periods which have no common measure, namely, the = 1, and the year 1840 is the first of the solar cycle. week, the lunar month, and the solar year; and as this In order to make use of the solar cycle in finding the can only be done approximately, and within certain limits, dominical letter, it is necessary to know that the first year the determination of Easter is an affair of considerable of the Christian era began 4vith Saturday. The dominical nicety and complication. It is to be regretted that the letter of that year, which was the tenth of the cycle, was reverend fathers who formed the council of Nice were not consequently B. The following year, or the 11th of the advised to abandon the moon altogether, and appoint cycle, the letter was A ; then G. The fourth year was bisEaster to be celebrated on the first or second Sunday of sextile, and the dominical letters were F, E; the followApril. The ecclesiastical calendar would in this case have ing year D, and so on. In this manner it is easy to find possessed all the simplicity and uniformity of the civil ca- the dominical letter belonging to each of the twenty-eight lendar, which only requires the adjustment of the civil to years of the cycle. But at the end of a century the order the solar year; but they were probably not sufficiently is interrupted in the Gregorian calendar by the secular versed in astronomy to be aware of the practical difficulties suppression of the leap year; hence the cycle can only which their regulation had to encounter. be employed during a century. In the reformed calendar Dominical Letter.—The first problem which the conthe intercalary period is four hundred years, which number struction of the calendar presents is to connect the week being multiplied by seven, gives two thousand eight hunw'ith the year, or to find the day of the week correspond- dred years as the interval in which the coincidence is reing to a given day of any year of the era. As the number stored between the days of the year and the days of the of days in the week and the number in the year are prime week. This long period, however, may be reduced to four to one another, two successive years cannot begin with the hundred years ; for since the dominical letter goes back five same day ; for if a common year begins, for example, with places every four years, its variation in four hundred years, Sunday, the following year will begin with Monday, and in the Julian calendar, was five hundred places, which is if a leap year begins with Sunday, the year following will equivalent to only three places (for five hundred divided begin with Tuesday. For the sake of greater generality, by seven leaves three); but the Gregorian calendar supthe days of the week are denoted by the first seven letters presses exactly three intercalations in four hundred years, of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, which are placed in so that after four hundred years the dominical letters must the calendar beside the days of the year, so that A stands again return in the same order. opposite the first day of January, B opposite the second, Hence the following table of dominical letters for four and so on to G, which stands opposite the seventh ; after hundred years will serve to show the dominical letter of which A returns to the eighth, and so on through the 365 any year in the Gregorian calendar for ever. It contains days of the year. Now, if one of the days of the week, four columns of letters, each column serving for a cenSunday for example, is represented by E, Monday will be In order to find the column from which the letter represented by F, Tuesday by G, Wednesday by A, and tury. any given case is to be taken, strike off the two last so on ; and every Sunday through the year will have the in figures of the date, divide the preceding figures by four, same character E, every Monday F, and so with regard to and the remainder will indicate the column. The symbol the rest. The letter which denotes Sunday is called the X, employed in the formula at the top of the column, deDominical Letter, or the Sunday Letter; and when the the date after the two last figures have been supdominical letter of the year is known, the letters which notes pressed. For example, required the dominical letter of the respectively correspond to the other days of the week become known at the same time. year 1839? In this case X = 18, therefore = 25 Solar Cycle.—In the Julian calendar the dominical letters are readily found by means of a short cycle, in which and in the second column of letters, opposite 39, we find F, they recur in the same order without interruption. The which is the letter of the proposed year.

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TABLE I.—Dominical Letters.

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third year of the period, there will be five leap years in Calendar, the period, but only four when the first leap year'falls on the fourth. In the former case the number of days in the period becomes 6940, and in the latter 6939. The mean length of the cycle is therefore 6939| days, agreeing exactly with nineteen Julian years. By means of the lunar cycle the new moons of the calendar were indicated before the reformation. As the cycle restores these phenomena to the same days of the civil month, they will fall on the same days in any two years which occupy the same place in the cycle; consequently a table of the moon’s phases for 19 years will serve for any year whatever when we know its number in the cycle. This number is called the Golden Number, either because it was so termed by the Greeks, or because it was usual to mark it with red letters in the calendar. The Golden Numbers were introduced into the calendar about the year 530, but disposed as they would have been if they had been inserted at the time of the council of Nice. The cycle is supposed to commence with the year in which the new moon falls on the 1st of January, which took place the year preceding the commencement of our era. Hence, to find the Golden Number N, we have ——) , which gives the following rule :

Add

1

to

the date, divide the sum by 19 ; the quotient is the number of cycles elapsed, and the remainder is the Golden Number.

It deserves to be remarked, that as the dominical letter of the first year of the era was B, the first column of the above table will give the dominical letter of every year from the commencement of the era to the reformation. For this purpose divide the date by 28, and the letter opposite the remainder, in the first column of figures, is the dominical letter of the year. For example, suppose the date to be 1148. On dividing this number by 28, the remainder is 0, or 28; and opposite 28, in the first column of letters, we find D, C, which, therefore, are the dominical letters of the year 1148. Lunar Cycle and Golden Number.—In connecting the lunar month with the solar year, the framers of the ecclesiastical calendar adopted the period of Meton, which they supposed to be exact. A different arrangement has, however, been followed with respect to the distribution of the months. The lunations are supposed to consist of twenty-nine and thirty days alternately, or the lunar year of 354 days; and in order to make up nineteen solar years, six embolismic or intercalary months, of thirty days each, are introduced in the course of the cycle, and one of twenty-nine days at the end. This gives 19 X 354 + 6 X 30 + 29 = 6935 days, to be distributed among 235 lunar months. But every leap year one day must be added to the lunar month in which the 29th of February is included. Now if leap year happens on the first, second, or VOL. VI.

When the remainder is 0, the proposed year is of course the last or 19th of the cycle. It ought to be remarked that the new moons, determined in this manner, may differ from the astronomical new moons sometimes so much as two days. The reason is, that the sum of the solar and lunar inequalities, which are compensated in the whole period, may amount in certain cases to 10°, and thereby cause the new moon to arrive on the second day before or after its mean time. Dionysian Period.—The cycle of the sun brings back the days of the month to the same day of the week; the lunar cycle restores the new moons to the same day of the month; therefore 28 X 19 = 532 years, includes all the variations in respect of the new moons and the dominical letters, and is consequently a period after which the new moons again occur on the same day of the month and the same day of the week. This is called the Dionysian or Great Paschal period, from its having been employed by Dionysius Exiguus, familiarly styled Denys the Little, in determining Easter Sunday. It was however first proposed by Yictorius of Aquitain, who had been appointed by Pope Hilary to revise and correct the church calendar. Hence it is also called the Victorian period. It continued in use till the Gregorian reformation. Cycle of Indiction.—Besides the solar and lunar cycles, there is a third of 15 years, called the cycle of indiction, frequently employed in the computations of chronologists. This period is not astronomical, like the two former; but has reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors. Its commencement is referred to the 1st of January of the year 313 of the common era. By extending it backwards, it will be found that the first of the era was the fourth of the cycle of indiction. The number of any year in this cycle will therefore be given by the formula L-

that is to say,

add 3 to the date, divide the sum by 15, and the remainder is the year of the indiction. When the remainder is 0, the

proposed year is the fifteenth of the cycle. Julian Period.—The Julian period, proposed by the celebrated Joseph Scaliger as an universal measure of chronology, is formed by taking the continued product of B

CALENDAR.

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Calendar, the three cycles of the sun, of the moon, and of the indiction, and is consequently 28 X 19 X 15 =: 7980 years. In the course of this long period no two years can be expressed by tbe same numbers in all the three cycles. Hence, when the number of any proposed year in each of the cycles is known, its number in the Julian period can be determined by the resolution of a very simple problem of the indeterminate analysis. It is unnecessary, however, in the present case, to exhibit the general solution of the problem, because when the number in the period corresponding to any one year in the common era has been ascertained, it is easy to establish the correspondence for all other years, without having again recourse to the direct solution of the problem. We shall therefore find the number of the Julian period corresponding to the first of our era. We have already seen that the year 1 of the era had 10 for its number in the solar cycle, 2 in the lunar cycle, and 4 in the cycle of indiction; the question is therefore to find a number such, that when it is divided by the three numbers 28, 19, and 15 respectively, the three quotients shall be 10, 2, and 4. Let x, y, and z, be the three quotients of the divisions; the number sought will then be expressed by 28 a; + 10, by 19 ?/ + 2, or by 15 s + 4. Hence the two equations 28 x + 10 = 19 ?/ + 2 = 15 z + 4. To resolve the equation 28 a; + 10 = 19 ?/ -|- 2, or 9a; + 8 9#+8 y — x "T* ——, Jet m = ———, we have then 19 ’ “ 19 m—8 _ m—8 , , , , _ x — 2 in + —-—. Let —v.— = m ; then m — m + 8; hence a? = 18 m’ + 16 + m’ = 19 m’ + 16 (1) Again, since 28 a? + 10 15 z + 4, we have 15 z = 2 x — 6 T 2 x—6 28 x + 6, or z — 20 a? . Let — = n; 15 15 71

then 2 a: r= 15 77 + 6, and a; = 7 77 + 3 + -. - zz

n';

then

n — 2 n';

Let

consequently

/

a; zz 14 ?7 3 -f- 77' — 15 77' -f- 3 (2) Equating the above two values of x, wc have 15 n' + 3 zz!9 777' + 16; whence n' — m' -f- -- m Let 15 4 777 + 13 _ p ; we have then 4 777' zz \5> p — 13, and 15 , » + 13 T » + 13 4p . Let —^ — pt; then p — 4 p' '

— 13 ; whence 777' zz \Q> p' — 52 — p>' zz 15 p' — 52. Now in this equation p' may be any number whatever, provided 15/7 exceed 52. The smallest value of// (which is the one here wanted) is therefore 4; for 15 X 4 zz: 60. Assuming therefore p’ — 4, we have m' zz 60 — 52 zz 8; and consequently, since a; zz 19 m' + 15, a? =z 19 X 8 + 16 zz 168. The number required is consequently 20 X 168 + 10 zz 4714. Having found the number 4714 for the first of the era, the correspondence of the years of the era and of the period is as follows: Era, 1, 2, 3,... x, Period, 4714, 4715, 4716,...4713 + a;; from which it is evident, that if we take P to represent the year of the Julian period, and Y the corresponding year of the Christian era, we shall have P zz 4713 + Y, and Y zz P — 4713. With regard to the numeration of the years previous to the commencement of the era, the practice is not uniform. Chronologists, in general, reckon the year preceding the

2, and SO on. Calendar. first of the era —1, the next preceding In this case Era, —1, —2, —3,... —x, Period, 4713, 4712, 4711,...4714—a; ; whence P zz 4714 — Y, and Y zz 4714 — P. But astronomers, in order to preserve the uniformity of computation, make the series of years proceed without interruption, and reckon the year preceding the first of the era 0. In this case Era, 0, —1, —2,... —x, Period, 4713, 4712, 4711,...4714—x; therefore P zz 4713 — Y, and Y = 4713 — P. Reformation of the Calendar.—The ancient church calendar was founded on two suppositions, both erroneous, namely, that the year contains 365£ days, and that 235 lunations are exactly equal to nineteen solar years. It could not therefore long continue to preserve its correspondence with the seasons, or to indicate the days of the new moons with the same accuracy. About the year 730, the venerable Bede had already perceived the anticipation of the equinoxes, and remarked that these phenomena then took place about three days earlier than at the time of the council of Nice. Five centuries after the time of Bede, the divergence of the true equinox from the 21st of March, which now amounted to seven or eight days, was pointed out by John of Sacrobosco, in a work published under the title I)e Anni Ratione ; and by Roger Bacon, in a treatise I)e Reformatione Calendarii, which, though never published, was transmitted to the pope. These works were probably little regarded at the time; but as the errors of the calendar went on increasing, and the true length of the year, in consequence of the progress of astronomy, became better known, the project of a reformation was again revived in the fifteenth century; and in 1474 Pope Sextus IV. invited Regiomontanus, the most celebrated astronomer of the age, to Rome, to superintend the reconstruction of the calendar. The premature death of Regiomontanus caused the design to be suspended for the present; but in the following century numerous memoirs appeared on the subject, among the authors of which were Stceffier, Albert Pighius, John Schcener, Lucas Gauricus, and other mathematicians of celebrity. At length Pope Gregory XIII. perceiving that the measure was likely to confer a great eclat on his pontificate, undertook the long-desired reformation ; and having found the governments of the principal catholic states ready to adopt his views, he issued a brief in the month of March 1582, in which he abolished the use of the ancient calendar, and substituted that which has since been received in almost all Christian countries under the name of the Gregorian Calendar or New Style. The author of the system adopted by Gregory was Aloysius Lilius, or Luigi Lilio Ghiraldi, a learned astronomer and physician of Naples, who died, however, before its introduction ; but the individual who most contributed to give the ecclesiastical calendar its present form, and who was charged with all the calculations necessary for its verification, wasClavius, by whom it was completely developed and explained in a great folio treatise of 800 pages, published in 1603, the title of which is given at the end of this article. It has already been mentioned that the error of the Julian year was corrected in the Gregorian calendar by the suppression of three intercalations in 400 years. In order to restore the commencement of the year to the same place in the seasons that it had occupied at the time of the council of Nice, Gregory directed the day following the feast of St Francis, that is to say the 5th of October, to be reckoned the 15th of that month. By this regulation

CALENDAR. Calendar, the vernal equinox, which now happened on the 11th of March, was restored to the 21st. From 1582 to 1700, the difference between the old and new style continued to be ten days; but 1700 being a leap year in the Julian calendar, and a common year in the Gregorian, the difference of the styles during the eighteenth century was eleven days. The year 1800 was also common in the new calendar, and, consequently, the difference in the present century is twelve days. From 1900 to 2100 it will be thirteen days. The restoration of the equinox to its former place in the year, and the correction of the intercalary period, were attended with no difficulty; but Lilius had also to adapt the lunar year to the new rule of intercalation. The lunar cycle contained 6939 days 18 hours, whereas the exact time of 235 lunations, as we have already seen, is 235 X 29*5305887 = 6939 days 16 hours 31*2 minutes. The difference, which is 1 hour 28*8 minutes, amounts to a day in 308 years, so that at the end of this time the new moons occur one day earlier than they are indicated by the golden numbers. During the 1257 years that elapsed between the council of Nice and the reformation, the error had accumulated to four days, so that the new moons, which were marked in the calendar as happening, for example, on the 5th of the month, actually fell on the first. It would have been easy to correct this error by placing the golden numbers four lines higher in the new calendar; and the suppression of the ten days had already rendered it necessary to place them ten lines lower, and to carry those which belonged, for example, to the 5th and 6th of the month, to the 15th and 16th. But, supposing this correction to have been made, it would have again become necessary, at the end of 308 years, to advance them one line higher, in consequence of the accumulation of the error of the cycle to a whole day. On the other hand, as the golden numbers were only adapted to the Julian calendar, every omission of the centenary intercalation would require them to be placed one line lower, opposite the 6th, for example, instead of the 5 th of the month; so that, generally speaking, the places of the golden numbers would have to be changed every century. On this account Lilius thought fit to reject the golden numbers from the calendar, and supply their place by another set of numbers called Epacts, the use of which we shall now proceed to explain. Epacts.—Epact is a word of Greek origin, employed in the calendar to signify the moon’s age at the end of the year. The common solar year containing 365 days, and the lunar year only 354 days, the difference is eleven ; whence, if a new moon fall on the 1st of January in any year, the moon will be eleven days old on the first day of the following year, and twenty-two days on the first of the third year. The numbers eleven and twenty-two are therefore the epacts of those years respectively. Another addition of eleven gives thirty-three for the epact of the fourth year; but in consequence of the insertion of the intercalary month in each third year of the lunar cycle, this epact is reduced to three. In like manner the epacts of all the following years of the cycle are obtained by successively adding eleven to the epact of the former year, and rejecting thirty as often as the sum exceeds that number. They are therefore connected with the golden numbers by the formula in which n is any whole number; and for a whole lunar cycle (supposing the first epact to be 11), they are as follows: 11, 22, 3, 14, 25, 6, 17, 28, 9, 20, 1, 12, 23, 4, 15, 26, 7, 18, 29. But the order is interrupted at the end of the cycle; for the epact of the following year, found in the same manner, would be 29 + 11 = 40 = 10, whereas it ought again to be 11 to correspond with the moon’s age and the golden number 1.

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The reason of this is, that the intercalary month, inserted Calendar, at the end of the cycle, contains only twenty-nine days in- '‘-■'"'y'-'w' stead of thirty; whence, after 11 has been added to the epact of the year corresponding to the golden number 19, we must reject twenty-nine instead of thirty, in order to have the epact of the succeeding year; or, which comes to the same thing, we must add twelve to the epact of the last year of the cycle, and then reject thirty as before. This method of forming the epacts might have been continued indefinitely if the Julian intercalation had been followed without correction, and the cycle been perfectly exact; but as neither of these suppositions is true, two equations or corrections must be applied, one depending on the error of the Julian year, which is called the solar equation; the other on the error of the lunar cycle, which is called the lunar equation. The solar equation occurs three times in 400 years, namely, in every secular year which is not a leap year; for in this case the omission of the intercalary day causes the new moons to arrive one day later in all the following months, so that the moon’s age at the end of the month is one day less than it would have been if the intercalation had been made, and the epacts must accordingly be all diminished by unity. Thus the epacts 11, 22, 3, 14, &c. become 10, 21, 2, 13, &c. On the other hand, when the time by which the new moons anticipate the lunar cycle amounts to a whole day, which, as we have seen, it does in 308 years, the new moons will arrive one day earlier, and the epacts must consequently be increased by unity. Thus the epacts 11, 22, 3, 14, &c. in consequence of the lunar equation, become 12, 23, 4, 15, &c. In order to preserve the uniformity of the calendar, the epacts are changed only at the commencement of a century; the correction of the error of the lunar cycle is therefore made at the end of 300 years. In the Gregorian calendar this error is assumed to amount to one day in 3121 years, or eight days in 2500 years, an assumption which requires the line of epacts to be changed seven times successively at the end of each period of 300 years, and once at the end of 400 years; and, from the manner in which the epacts were disposed at the reformation, it was found most correct to suppose one of the periods of 2500 years to terminate with the year 1800. The years in which the solar equation occurs, counting from the reformation, are 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, &c. Those in which the lunar equation occurs are 1800, 2100, 2400, 2700, 3000, 3300, 3600, 3900, after which, 4300, 4600, and so on. When the solar equation occurs, the epacts are diminished by unity ; when the lunar equation occurs, the epacts are augmented by unity; and when both equations occur together, as in 1800, 2100, 2700, &c. they compensate each other, and the epacts are not changed. In consequence of the solar and lunar equations, it is evident that the epact, or moon’s age at the beginning of the year, must, in the course of centuries, have all different values from one to thirty inclusive, corresponding to the days in a full lunar month. Hence, for the construction of a perpetual calendar, there must be thirty different sets or lines of epacts. These are exhibited in the subjoined table (Table II.), called the Extended Table of Epacts, which is constructed in the following manner. The series of golden numbers is written in a line at the top of the table, and under each golden number is a column of thirty epacts, arranged in the order of the natural numbers, beginning at the bottom and proceeding to the top of the column. The first column, under the golden number 1, contains the epacts 1, 2, 3, 4, &c. to 30 or 0. The second column, corresponding to the following year in the lunar cycle, must have all its epacts augmented by 11; the low-

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CALENDAR.

Calendar, est number therefore in the column is 12, then 13, 14, 15, '—and so on. The third column, corresponding to the golden number 3, has for its first epact 12 + 11 = 23 ; and in the same manner all the nineteen columns of the table

are formed. Each of the thirty lines of epacts is desig- Calendar. nated by a letter of the alphabet, which serves as its index or argument. The order of the letters, like that ot the numbers, is from the bottom of the column upwards.

TABLE II.—Extended

In the tables of the church calendar the epacts are usually printed in Roman numerals, excepting the last, which is designated by an asterisk (#), used as an indefinite symbol to denote 30 or 0; and 25, which in the eight last columns is expressed in Arabic characters, for a reason that will immediately be explained. In the table here given, this distinction is made by means of an accent placed over the last figure. At the reformation the epacts were given by the line D. The year 1600 was a leap year ; the intercalation accordingly took place as usual, and there was no interruption in the order of the epacts; the line D was employed till 1700. In that year the omission of the intercalary day rendered it necessary to diminish the epacts by unity, or to pass to the line C. In 1800 the solar equation again occurred, in consequence of which it was necessary to descend one line to have the epacts diminished by unity; but in this year the lunar equation also occurred, the anticipation of the new moons having amounted to a day; the new moons accordingly happened a day earlier, which rendered it necessary to take the epacts in the next high-

Table of Epacts.

er line. There was consequently no alteration ; the two equations destroyed each other. The line of epacts belonging to the present century is therefore C. In 1900 the solar equation occurs, after which the line is B. The year 2000 is a leap year, and there is no alteration. In 2100 the equations again occur together and destroy each other, so that the line B will serve three centuries, from 1900 to 2200. From that year to 2300 the line will be A. In this manner the line of epacts belonging to any given century is easily found, and the method ot proceeding is obvious. When the solar equation occurs alone, the line of epacts is changed to the next lower in the table ; when the lunar equation occurs alone, the line is changed to the next higher; when both equations occur together, no change takes place. In order that it may be perceived at once to what centuries the different lines of epacts respectively belong, we have placed them in a column on the left hand side of the above table. The use of the epacts is to show the days of the new moons, and consequently the moon’s age on any day of the year. For this purpose they are placed in the calendar

C A L E N D A R.

13 of the year, is twenty-nine days. The epact of the follow- Calendar, ing year is therefore twenty-nine. Now that lunation having commenced on the 3d of December, and consisting of thirty days, will end on the 1st of January. The 2d of January is therefore the day of the new moon, which is indicated by the epact twenty-nine. In like manner, if the new moon fell on the 4th of December, the epact of the following year would be twenty-eight, which, to indicate the day of next new moon, must correspond to the 3d of January.

(Table III.) along with the days of the month and domini'-Y'"'-' cal letters, in a retrograde order, so that the asterisk stands beside the 1st of January, 29 beside the 2d, 28 beside the 3d, and so on to 1, which corresponds to the 30th. After this comes the asterisk, which corresponds to the 31st of January, then 29, which belongs to the 1st of February, and so on to the end of the year. The reason of this distribution is evident. If the last lunation of any year ends, for example, on the 2d of December, the new moon falls on the 3d; and the moon’s age on the 31st, or at the end

Calendar.

TABLE III.— Gregorian

Calendar.

3 M 3

•cP. ■< E 29 28 27 26 25'25 24 23

L

E

L

E

L

E

E

L

E

29 28 27 25'26 25 24

# 29 28 27 26

29 28 27 25'26 2524

28 27 26 25'25 24

27 25'26 25 24 23

26 25'25 24 23

22

22

23

25'25 24 23

23

23

21

22 21 20

20

21 20

22

22 21 20

19 18 17

19 18 17

22 21

19

21

19

19

20

18 17 16 15 14

20

18 17 16 15 14

18 17 16 15 14

16 15 14 13

16 15 14 13

12

12

13

15 14 13

13

13

12 11 10

12 11 10

11 10

11 10

9

9

8

8

9

9

7

7

15 14 13

Ei

E

22 21 20

19 18 17 16

26 27 28 29 30

L

•
23

te27_E,

or

Y P=54 —E | Z=57 ,=57_E or

_ , (^.

By substituting one or other of these values of P and l, fore, counting from the beginning of the calendar in 1582, according as the case may be, in the formula />=?+ (L — 1), we shall have p, or the number of days from the _ fc__ 15 —a) M 21st of March to Easter Sunday. It will be remarked, w “l 3 / that as (L — 1) cannot either be 0 or negative, we must By the substitution of these values of J, S, and M, the add 7 to L as often as may be necessary, in order that equation of the epact becomes (L — l) may be a whole positive number. /N+10(N—1)\ fc~l6\ (c—15—a\ By means of the formulae which we have now given for E —( go )r—c lt)+ \ 4“ 3 Jw the dominical letter, the golden number, and the epact, ' Easter Sunday may be computed for any year after the It may be remarked, that as a = (——) , the value of reformation, without the assistance of any tables whatever. \ 2b Jw As an example, suppose it were required to compute a will be 0 till c —17=25 or c=42; therefore, till the Easter for the year 1840. By substituting this number year 4200, a may be neglected in the computation. Had in the formula for the dominical letter, we have x= 1840, the anticipation of the new moons been taken, as it ought c—16=2, (“r—) =0, therefore to have been, at one day in 308 years instead of 3121, the \ 4 Jio lunar equation would have occurred only twelve times in L,=lm-\-6— 1840 — 460+2 3700 years, or eleven times successively at the end of 300 -lm — 2292 years, and then at the end of 400. In strict accuracy, =7 X 328 — 2292=2296 — 2292=4 therefore, a ought to have no value till c— 17=37, or .(1). L=4=D. c=54, that is to say, till the year 5400. The above forFor the golden number we have N= ^ 19^ )y’ mula for the epact is given by Delambre {Hist, de VAstronomic Moderne, tom. i. p. 9) ; it may be exhibited under therefore N=17 (2). a variety of forms, but the above is perhaps the best adapt- ^ ^ /N+ 10(N—1)\ /17 +160\ r ed for calculation. Another had previously been given For the epact we have I — ) = I—^— 1 by Gauss, but inaccurately, inasmuch as the correction depending on a was omitted. = 0^J^ =27; likewise c—16=18—16=2,^—^— = 1, Having determined the epact of the year, it only remains to find Easter Sunday from the conditions already a=0, therefore E=27 —2+1=26 (3). laid down. Let Now since E > 23, we have for P and l, P=the number of days from the 21st of March to the P=54 — E=54 —26=28, 15th of the paschal moon, which is the first day on which Easter Sunday can fall; p=the number of days from the 21st of March to Easter consequently, since j9=P + (L — l) Sunday; jt?=28 + (4 — 3)=29 ; L = dominical letter of the year;

CAL Calender,

that is to say, Easter happens twenty-nine days after the 21st of March, or on the 19th of April, the same result as was before found from the tables. The principal church feasts depending on Easter, and the times of their celebration, are as follows: Septuagesima Sunday! f9 weeks) before Ash Wednesday j \46 days / Easter. Rogation Sunday 'v r5 weeks'v Ascension day or Holy Thursday ( • ' 40 days (after Pentecost or Whitsunday C lSj 7 weeks f~Easter.

C

A

L

tions. The difference of the two styles, which then amounted to eleven days, was removed by ordering the day following the 2d of September of the year 1752 to be accounted the 14th of that month; and in order to preserve uniformity in future, the Gregorian rule of intercalation respecting the secular years was adopted. At the same time, the commencement of the legal year was changed from the 25th of April to the 1st of January. With respect to the movable feasts, Easter is determined by the rule laid down by the council of Nice ; but instead of employing the new moons and epacts, the golden numbers are prefixed to the days of the full moons. In those years in which the line of epacts is changed in the Gregorian calendar, the golden numbers are removed to different days, and of course a new table is required whenever the solar or lunar equation occurs. The golden numbers have been placed so that Easter may fall on the same day as in the Gregorian calendar. The calendar of the church of England is therefore from century to century the same in form as the old Roman calendar, excepting that the golden numbers indicate the full moons instead of the new moons. The principal works on the calendar are the following: Clavius, Romani Calendarii a Gregorio XIII. P. M. restituti Explicatio. Romse, 1603. Lalande, Astronomic, tom. ii. Traite de la Sphere et du Calendrier, par M. Revard. Paris, 1816. Delambre, Traite de TAstronomic Theorique et Pratique, tom. iii. Histoire de lAstronomic Moderne.

The Gregorian calendar was introduced into Spain, Portugal, and part of Italy, the same day as at Rome. In France it was received in the same year in the month of December, and by the Catholic states of Germany the year following. In the Protestant states of Germany the Julian calendar was adhered to till the year 1700, when it was decreed by the diet of Ratisbon that the new style and the Gregorian correction of the intercalation should be adopted. Instead, however, of employing the golden numbers and epacts for the determination of Easter and the movable feasts, it was resolved that the equinox and the paschal moon should be found by astronomical computation from the Rudolphine tables. But this method, though at first view it may appear more accurate, was soon found to be attended with numerous inconveniences, and was at length, in 1774, abandoned at the instance of Frederic II. king of Prussia. In Denmark and Sweden the reformed calendar was received about the same time as in the Protestant states of Germany. Russia still adheres to the Julian reckoning. Methodus technica brevis, perfacilis ac perpetua, construIn Great Britain the alteration of the style was for a endi Calendarium Ecclesiasticum, Stylo tam novo quam long time successfully opposed by popular prejudice. The vetere, pro cunctis ChristianisEuropce populis, Sfc. Auctore inconvenience, however, of using a different date from Paulo Tittel. Gcettinguae, 1816. that employed by the greater part of Europe, in matters Formole analitiche pel calcolo della Pasqua, e correzicne of history and chronology, began to be generally felt; and di quello di Gauss, con critiche osservazioni sii quanto ha at length, in 1751, an act of parliament was passed for the scritto del Calendario il Delambre, di Lodovico Ciccolini. adoption of the new style in all public and legal transac- Roma, 1817. (s.)

CALENDER, a mechanical engine empioyed by clothlappers, for dressing and finishing cloths and stuffs of various descriptions and fabrics, before exposure to sale, or delivery to purchasers. It is also used by calico-printers, in order to extend and smooth the surface of their cloths, after they have been bleached, and before they are subjected to the operations of the printing table or copperplate press. In all cases two, and in many three requisites must be attained, in order to give to cloth that appearance which it is deemed necessary that it should possess, to attract the eye and gratify the fancy of the purchaser and consumer. The^/zrstf of these requisites consists in as perfect extension and smoothness of surface as can be attained ; so that no wrinkle or doubled folding may remain in it, excepting such as shall afterwards be intentionally made, in order to the reducing of it to the proper form and shape. The second requisite acquired by the calendering of cloth, is the compression of the yarn or threads of which the texture is composed, which in some degree divests them of their cylindrical shape, and reduces them to a degree of flatness, which, by bringing them more closely into contact with each other, gives to the fabric a greater appearance of closeness and strength than it would otherwise possess. The operation of the calender also improves the superficial appearance, by flattening down all knots, lumps, and other imperfections, from which no material from which cloth is fabricated can ever be envoi,. VI.

tirely freed during the previous processes of spinning and weaving. And, thirdly, in many fabrics it is desirable, and esteemed a great addition to the effect and beauty of the superficial appearance, that cloth should receive, by means of friction, an additional lustre or polish, which is generally distinguished by the appellation of glazing, and is chiefly required in those stuffs which are employed in the ornamental descriptions of female attire. Such, in a strictly limited sense, are the sole and exclusive effects resulting from the mechanical operation of the calender; but, as other operations besides smoothing or glazing are necessary for the proper preparation of cloths for the market, these also are carried on by the same persons, and in the same premises. Hence by a natural, although not strictly correct, extension of its acceptation, the term calender, which really means only the chief mechanical engine employed, gives the general name to the whole establishment where all the varied operations of cloth-lapping are carried on; and it is as usual to say that goods are packed, as that goods are dressed, at a calender. In the illustration, therefore, of those operations which the limits of this article will admit, the first object will be to convey a distinct idea of the principles, construction, and operation of the principal machinery employed; and then to add such general and miscellaneous observations as may serve to elucidate how the business of cloth-lapping is carried on in its present extended form. For the purpose of smoothing both surfaces of a piece c

17 Calender,

18 Calender,

CALENDER. of cloth, it is necessary that they should be exposed to ly obtained by impregnating and stiffening the cloth, after vCalender, 'universal contact and pressure in every point, with some it has been bleached, with a mucilage of starch ; and this is body of sufficient density to acquire the requisite degree of too frequently carried to a very unfair height, for the pursuperficial polish. Such equality of surface, however, as poses of deception, which is not very easily detected, unwill produce this effect, is not very easily attainable in large til the cloth be again exposed to moisture, when the deluplane surfaces. Hence the contact of cylinders in this sive appearance instantly vanishes. Hence, in all dense operation has been found to be in all respects infinitely fabrics, the calender is generally used in a heated state; preferable to that of planes, both in the speed and the ef- whilst in flimsy fabrics, in which transparency of appearfect of the operation. The common domestic smoothing ance is more the requisite than strength, the operation is iron is the most simple of all calendering utensils; but, conducted with the calender perfectly cold. The effect of these frequent and sudden transitions upon even in the application of its small and limited surface, it would be difficult to procure any table or board sufficient- wooden cylinders was necessarily productive both of fisly level to bring the whole cloth into equal contact with sure and warping or twisting ; and no care in drying or the iron, without the intervention of a few folds of blan- seasoning the wood before turning could entirely remove these defects. The substitution of pasteboard, however, ket, or some other thick and soft woollen cloth. The old and now almost entirely superseded machine afforded a radical cure for both, as well as a collateral adtermed a mangle gives the most simple and rude approxi- vantage arising from its being susceptible of a much highmation towards cylindrical calendering, and the substitu- er degree of superficial polish, which is always transferred tion of circular for plane surfaces. Its operation is that to the cloth. The paper or pasteboard cylinder, besides total exempof a cylinder applied to a plane, upon which it is rolled backward and forward, until some degree of smoothness tion from all defects incidental to ligneous substances, is produced by this reciprocating motion. It is, there- from the immense density of which it is susceptible by fore, very analogous in principle to the common gardener’s compression, presents a superficies capable of receiving and roller, with which land is resmoothed after having been retaining an almost unparalleled smoothness and polish. In order to construct cylinders of this description, an dug up for sowing or other agricultural purposes. The smoothing calender completes the substitution of axis of malleable iron, and two circular plates of cast iron, cylindrical for plane surfaces, all the parts which operate are, in the first place, provided. In these plates, which upon the cloth being of that form. This ingenious engine, must be at least from one to two inches thick, there are which was introduced into Britain from Flanders and Hol- six equidistant perforations near to the circumference, land, during the persecution of the Huguenots, has, since each capable of admitting a rod of malleable iron at least its introduction and adoption here, undergone no very ma- three fourths of an inch in diameter. The entire space terial or important alteration or improvement in point of between the two iron plates is then to be filled with cirtheoretical principle; nor, until the extension of the cot- cular pieces of the strongest pasteboard, exceeding by ton manufacture had introduced a general spirit of mecha- about one inch in diameter the iron plates, and having nical improvement, had it received any great amelioration each a correspondent perforation, through which the six in practical execution. Two very important improvements iron rods may pass parallel to the axis. A cylinder is thus have, however, since that period been introduced and adopt- formed, the substance of which is of pasteboard locked ed. The first of these, which originated in Lancashire, is together by plates of iron at the extremities, and suscepnow almost universally employed. The second was in- tible, by means of screws on the extremities of the six connecting rods, of immense compression. After undervented at Glasgow. The scope of the former of these improvements con- going this preparation, the cylinder is exposed to strong sists in the substitution of pasteboard in the place of wood, heat in a confined apartment; and, as the pasteboard daily in constructing three out of the five cylinders of which contracts, the screws are every day tightened for the space the engine is composed. These cylinders, when previous- of some weeks. The density of the cylinder is thus inly composed of wood, were found to be liable to two seri- creased, whilst it is contracted in length upon the axis, ous and important objections. Calenders employed in ge- for which contraction adequate allowance must be made neral business are necessarily subjected to frequent alter- in its original measure, and the operation is continued nations and vicissitudes of heat and cold. These are en- until it has gradually acquired the requisite compression. tirely unavoidable, because, in smoothing or dressing cloths It is then re-exposed to the ordinary temperature of the of the denser fabrics, the effect, as in the common opera- atmosphere, and by its re-expansion presents a body altion of ironing linens, is found to be greatly heightened most inconceivably compact, its specific gravity in this by the application of as great a degree of heat as can safe- state being greater than even that of silver. The only ly be communicated without danger to the fabrics which operation now required is that of turning its superficies until correctly cylindrical; and this is a work of immense are to be smoothed. The expansion of every thread which composes a given labour and patience. The rotatory motion in turning does not exceed forty extent of cloth, although individually indistinguishable, even with microscopic aid, produces very considerable ge- or fifty revolutions per minute ; and the turner requires two neral effect, when exerted upon eight or ten thousand of or three assistants constantly employed in sharpening his these minute cylindrical substances, all combined together tools. When properly finished and smoothed, a pasteboard in the space of one single square yard. In this expanded cylinder, however, amply compensates, by its strength, its state, the pressure of the calender divests them more easi- gloss, and its durability, for the great labour and expense ly of their cylindrical form, and flattens them down until which its construction has created. A second practical improvement in calenders of the they come more closely into contact than before. This effect, which is in exact unison with the general theories common description consists in the substitution of cast of expansion and contraction, will at once produce an ap- iron for wood in the construction of the connecting frames. parent increase of closeness and density to the texture, This improvement is now common to almost every deas well as of gloss to the surfaces ; although the former is scription of machinery; and when applied to the calender, in fact deceptive, as no real acquisition of strength to the it is of more than usual advantage, because, independentfabric can thus be obtained. The apparent density of fab- ly of the accession of strength and diminution of space ric, as well as a higher accession of gloss, is also frequent- occupied, the total exemption of iron from warping is of

GALE NDER. peculiar advantage in an engine so rapidly exposed to alteration of temperature as the calender must be. The entire exemption of iron framing from combustion forms also another advantage of some importance in an engine frequently heated by the application of red-hot cylinders of iron. With this cursory outline of general improvement, the next object of the present article is to afford a description of the new glazing calender. Glazing Previously to the introduction of this improvement, the calender, operation of glazing, although performed sufficiently well, was somewhat tedious, being effected almost exclusively by the mere application of manual labour. It was performed upon a table, the cover of which was oblique to the horizon, forming with it an angle of 15° or 20°. The cloth being stretched on this, and a quantity of wax being thinly spread on its surface, the glazing was effected by the reciprocation of a smoothed flint, vibrating at the end of a rod, somewhat similar to the oscillations of a pendulum. The centre of oscillation was also movable on a spring, in order to reduce the arc of vibration to a plane, and keep the flint in uniform contact with the cloth. But a man’s power was competent to glaze only a few inches in breadth at once, and it was only by successive shiftings that the whole breadth was successively brought under the friction of the flint. The glazing calender produces the same effect, with increased uniformity, simply by changing the relative velocities of the cylinders to each other, and generating friction, as well as pressure, at the points of contact. The process of flint glazing is still practised in Manchester, but on a large scale, the operation being carried on by means of steam power. Ihe following is a description of the new glazing calender. Fig. 1, Plate CXLIII. is en elevation of a fiverollered calender for finishing cloth. AA are two paper rollers, of twenty inches diameter each. BB are two castiron cylinders, externally turned until perfectly smooth; their diameter is eight inches, allowing the substance of iron to be two inches, and leaving a perforation of four inches diameter. C is a paper roller of fourteen inches diameter; DD is the framing of cast iron for containing the bushes in which the journals of the rollers revolve; EE are two levers by which the rollers are firmly pressed together while the cloth is passing through. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same calender, with the wheels for glazing cloth. The wheel on the upper cylinder is ten inches diameter, the wheel on the under cylinder is thirteen inches diameter, both connected by the wheel F, which communicates the speed of the upper cylinder, so that the wheel on the under cylinder being nearly one third of an inch more in diameter, the difference of their motions retards the centre paper roller, by which means the upper cylinder passes over the cloth one third faster than the cloth passes through the calender, and polishes it in consequence. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a hydrostatic press. A, the piston, eight inches diameter, working in the cylinder B, and kept watei’-tight by passing through a collar of leather; D, a cast-iron plate raised by the piston A, between which and the entablature EE the goods to be pressed are laid; CCCC, four malleable iron columns, 2f th inches diameter, having screwed ends, with nuts, by which the entablature and the base FF are firmly connected together. G, a cistern for holding water to supply the two force-pumps HI, the largest of which has a piston inch diameter, and the other one of half an inch diameter, which is used to give the highest pressure ; KK, weights to balance the pump-handles which fit into the sockets at ll. The pistons of the force-pumps are made water-tight by collars of leather, kept in their place by the screwed pieces m and n. e e e, a pipe communicating Calender,

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with the pumps and the large cylinder B; there is a stop- Calender, cock at f, which shuts this communication when required. -w' Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the largest piston, to show the method of keeping the rod parallel. For dressing muslins, gauzes, lawns, and other goods of Small cathe light and transparent fabrics, a smaller species of ca-Ender for lender is employed. It consists of only three cylinders of1’^4 &equal diameters (generally about six inches), and is easily brics‘ moved by a common winch or handle. The middle cylinder is iron, and the others are wood or pasteboard. They are of equal diameters, and are moved with equal velocities by small wheels. This machine is always used in a cold state. The folding of cloth is so entirely regulated by fashion, that no precise rules can be laid down for its regulation. In general, as all the different manufactures of cloth have been imported from other countries, the original foldings have been copied to complete the resemblance. In the infant state of.imitation there was probably some policy in this, but the continuance may be ascribed almost exclusively to the power of habit. Pi’eservation and portability are the main requisites to be attained by folding; and these are attained by subjecting the cloth, when Folded, to a very powerful compression. Water-presses upon the forcing principle of Mr Bramah, Bramah’s or acted upon by the pressure of a column of water, are waternow in genei’al use in Glasgow and Manchester. Besides presses, the immense power thereby procured, the labour of pressing is much lessened. No improvements that have taken place in calendering can exceed the power and facility of the water-press; one of these presses is generally wrought by two men, who can with great ease work the pi’ess so as to produce a pi'essure of four hundred tons; and thereby the appearance and finish of the goods, in consequence of such an immense weight acting on them, are materially improved. Not only this, but the Bramah press is also used for the purpose of packing, which has increased the method of packing in bales considerably. The bale is commonly packed, roped, &c. while in a compressed state; the dimensions ai'e therefore greatly diminished from what they would otherwise be by any other method; for instance, the same quantity of goods packed in a bale would be one third less in size than if they were packed in a box. To the mechanical art of calendering it is found ex-Operations pedient, in the extended states of commerce, to add many connected of the operations of packing, sheeting, and preparing goods wdthcalenfor shipment; and these generally form a branch of the dering, establishment. In order to suit the great extent and va^ riety of manufacture practised in Britain, and to adapt these to the pi'evalent tastes and views of the extensive range of consumex's to be supplied, a multiplicity of foldings or lappings has been necessarily adopted, few of which probably possess much claim to entii'e originality. The high, and perhaps pre-eminent, station which the productions of the British looms have gradually attained, seem to be rather the effect of assiduous and enterpi-ising industry, than of great originality of invention, or precedence in mechanical improvement. Certainly she can, at the utmost, boast of only one raw material, fx-om which cloth is manufactured, as peculiai'ly indigenous. At an early period, no doubt, the British wool had attracted the peculiar attention of economists and statesmen as of paramount value; and the prohibition of its exportation became an object of legislative enactment. That manufacture, therefore, has long been the staple of England, as the linen trade, at a later period, has become that of Ireland. The attempts to introduce both of these branches of industry into Scotland, although, during the latter part of

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Calender, the last century, they engrossed much of the attention subsequent compression ; and, in general, all dense fabrics, Calender, both of public bodies"and of patriotic individuals, cannot whether of linen or of cotton, are rolled up and compres- 'w-vw be regarded as having proved eminently successful; and sed in a similar manner, the object of which is evidently the progress actually made has been almost entirely su- safety and diminution of space in land carriage or exporperseded and extinguished by the more recent introduc- tation. In others of the extensive varieties of cotton cloths of tion of the cotton manufacture. The latter branch of industry, since the splendid inven- British manufacture, some are avowed imitations of the tion of spinning by the aid of machinery, has indeed made manufactures of Hindustan, whilst others profess no such most rapid advances in every part of the united kingdom, imitation. Very few among the manufactures of Lancaand has attained to a height which has, perhaps, absorbed shire are either distinguished by Indian names, or copied a greater portion of national industry than consumers can from Indian cloths, although some of great extent are dieasily be found to employ. The extension of external rectly so. Calicoes, cossacs, and jaconets, for printing, as commerce has constantly supplied the raw material at well as Ballusore, Bandana, and Pullicate handkerchiefs, easy and generally moderate rates; and even the India are amongst the leading articles of the latter description ; Company have long ceased to oppose to it any very for- whilst among the former may be classed the very extensive manufactures of corduroys, thicksetts, velveretts, velmidable competition in the market. The silk manufactures of Britain formerly were not car- veteens, &c. although their origin is also probably Asiatic, ried on to a very great extent; they have now, however, but because well known and manufactured by the Geincreased considerably. Whatever may have, directly or noese, French, and other European nations, even before indirectly, tended to regulate the finishing, folding, and the discoveries of De Gama and other mariners had first preparing of British goods for the various markets of con- laid open the maritime intercourse with India by the Cape sumption, will chiefly refer to the three former branches of Good Hope. When, at a period infinitely more recent, the splendid of manufacture. Extensively as the woollen trade is carried on, it is in invention of spinning cotton by the agency of machinery a great measure absorbed either by internal or colonial to any degree of fineness afforded new scope to the Briconsumption, and does not, therefore, enter so generally tish weaver, the imitation of the lighter Indian fabrics into actual competition with the cloths of other nations, fell chiefly into the hands of the Scottish weavers, for exeas to render it either peculiarly desirable that its market- cuting which they had been in a considerable degree preable aspect should be either servilely copied from those viously prepared, by their habits of weaving lawns in imiof other countries, or very peculiarly distinguished from tation of the French, as well as their lighter fabrics of them. The chief object appears to have generally been, silk and thread gauzes. Io their share, in consequence, to prevent the intrusion of foreign cloths and stufts into fell the bouks, mulls, and japuns, almost exclusively, as our own markets; and hence adopting their usual folds into well as the lighter jaconets, designed for ornament from such rolls as most effectually preserve the dressed surface the needle and tambour frame. And whilst they have from acute cresses, is found to be most expedient and con- made no successful attempt to compete with their Lanvenient, the goods being distinguished by letters denot- cashire brethren in the dense fabrics of corduroys, quilting them to be “ British manufacture” on the ends of the ings, and other ponderous articles, they have shared with them the manufacture of the middling textures of campieces. In the Irish manufactures of cambrics and linens, the brics, Pullicates, and ginghams. Indeed, whatever prepossession may, at an early period, case is almost entirely reversed. From the superiority of climate, the French flax is admitted to be of finer appear- have existed in favour of the real Indian fabrics, it has now ance ; and although the importation of manufactured cam- so entirely subsided as to possess no influence whatever brics be strictly prohibited, the restraint during periods in swaying general opinion. ’Ihe British workmanship of peace has always been considerably evaded, in conse- has proved itself long ago so decisively superior to the Inquence of the demand experienced, and the reputation in dian, both in spinning and weaving, as to eradicate every which they are held. Indeed it was found generally doubt in the minds of all-who are really competent to demost expedient, by many retailers, to sell Irish cambrics cide the question of comparative superiority. Still, howunder the title of French, and hence the fold was correct- ever, candour will compel us to allow that the Indian posly imitated. The pieces, after being folded into lengths sesses advantages in the rich qualities of his cotton, and of about twelve inches, and twice laterally doubled, until the brilliancy of some of his dyes, which, in some degree, the whole breadth of thirty-four inches was reduced to compensate for the immense superiority of the British about eight and a half inches, were subjected to a power- skill and machinery, and which, to those who examine ful compression in the press until fully flattened. They superficially, may appear to entitle him to the preference. Nothing, therefore, exists in the cotton manufacture were then packed in purple coloured wrappers or papers, and a small engraved card or ticket was attached to each which could, in general cases, prompt to a servile imitapiece, specifying the length, generally about eight or eight tion of external appearance for the purposes of deception ; and a half yards. The cards were attached by a silken and the Indian mode of lapping their cloth is too rude and string, so as to be easily cut away with a penknife or pair laborious to admit of its being copied as a matter of conof scissors, in order to avoid seizure; and French or Irish venience. Their method consists merely in doubling a goods were sold indiscriminately as “ foreign cambrics.” piece of twenty yards, to reduce its length to ten yards, Custom has even carried this practice farther; and cot- which is again doubled, in order to reduce it to five; and ton cambrics, which are avowedly British manufacture, thus they continue to redouble, until the piece be reduand subjected to no risk whatever, because easily distin- ced to a moderate length, capable of being contained in a guishable from any cambric manufactured from flax, are put chest or bale. Thus often redoubled, an Indian piece up into the same folds, papered, and ticketed, in exactly cannot be examined throughout unless the whole piece be again unfolded; and this, in large transactions, would be the same manner. In linens, hollands, and sheetings, whether of foreign or utterly impracticable. British muslins are folded generally to a yard in length, Irish manufacture, the same fold is also employed ; and in cotton shirtings and sheetings it is closely imitated. The with a small allowance for extra measure; and as the form is that of a cylindric roll, somewhat flattened by folding is alternately from right to left, every part can be

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Calenders instantly examined upon a table or counter, every fold from Santon Calender!, their founder. This Santon went Calentius opening as easily as the leaves of a book in its uncut state, bareheaded, without a shirt, and with the skin of a wild Calian. The piece, when folded, is reduced by doubling it longi- beast thrown over his shoulders. He wore a kind of apron tudinally to about nineteen inches, and it is then folded before, the strings of which were adorned with counterfeit across to the breadth of about thirteen inches. An ordi- precious stones. His disciples are rather a sect of epicures nary sized trunk, 39 X 19 inches, thus contains three lay- than a society of religious persons. They honour a taers of pieces, in which package goods for exportation to vern as much as they do a mosque, and think they pay as the colonies are generally packed, the trunk there forming acceptable worship to God by the free use of his creaan article of merchandise as much in general demand as tures, as others do by the greatest austerities and acts of devotion, They are called in Persia and Arabia Abdals, the muslins which it contains. Even the Indian ornaments of gilt silver threads which or Abdallat, that is, persons consecrated to the honour and were at first woven into one end of each piece, although service of God. Their garment is a single coat, made up they did not exceed the value of twopence each, have of a variety ofA pieces, and quilted like a,w rug. They places, and 1:live their aubeen either greatly curtailed, or totally given up upon preach in *'the market ”° upon what '" °”principles of economy. Even the cost of this trivial orna- ditors bestow on them. They are generally very vicious ment has been computed to have amounted annually in persons ; for which reason they are not admitted into any houses. Glasgow and Paisley to about L.30,000. CALENTIUS, Elisius, a Neapolitan poet and prose Pullicate and other handkerchiefs are most commonly folded up in dozens. For the African and some other fo- author. He was preceptor to Frederick, the son of Ferreign trades, pieces containing only eight handkerchiefs dinand, king„ of Naples, and the earliest writer on the ilare preferred. These are still imitations of Indian prece- legality of putting criminals to death, except for murder, dents, confined to markets where competition continues to He died in 1503. exist, not only with the British Company, but with AmeCALENTURE, a feverish disorder incident to sailors ricans and others trading to India. A species of pale in hot countries, the principal symptom of which is their orange-coloured India handkerchiefs, distinguished by the imagining the sea to be green fields, name of Mudrus, being in extensive reputation in the CaCALENZANA, a city of the island of Corsica, in the raccas and other Spanish settlements in South America department of Calvi, containing 1950 inhabitants, at the period of the capture of Trinidad in 1795, patterns CALEPIN, Ambrosius, an Augustine monk of Calewere procured by some British traders, who ordered very pio, whence he took his name, in the sixteenth century, large quantities to be manufactured in Scotland of the He is author of a dictionary of eight languages, since same quality and appearance. With such effect were augmented by Passerat and others. these imitated in texture, in dye, in finishing, and even in CALF, in Zoology, the young of the ox kind. See the packages, that some hundreds of pieces sent to Lon- Mammalia. don for exportation were actually seized at the customGolden Calf, an idol set up and worshipped by the house as India goods, either illegally imported, or stolen Israelites at the foot of Mount Sinai, in their passage from some of the Company’s ships in the river. A scru- through the wilderness to the land of Canaan. Our vertiny, however, clearly ascertained that these goods were sion makes Aaron fashion this calf with a graving tool not Indian, but British, and that no trespass against either after he had cast it in a mould. The Geneva translation the privileges or the property of the Company had been makes him engrave it first, and cast it afterwards. Others, even attempted. The goods were of course released, and with more probability, render the whole yeise thus, permitted to proceed to their destination, where, after ex- “ And Aaron received them (the golden ear-rings), and tied amination and trial, it was found totally unnecessary longer them up in a bag, and got them cast into a molten ’ to conceal their real origin; and a very extensive trade* which version is authorized by the different senses of the through direct channels, has been since carried on for word tzur, which signifies to tie up or bind, as well as to similar goods. shape or form ; and of the word cherret, which is used both From the above general and cursory sketch, it will be for a graving tool and a bag.. Some of the ancient fathers General | observa- obvious that the management of an extensive calendering have been of opinion that this idol had only the face of a tions. establishment will require* on the part of its conductor* calf* and the shape of a man from the neck downwards, m not only a competent knowledge and experience of the imitation of the Egyptian Isis; while others have thought mechanical operations and duties of his particular profes- it was only the head of an ox without a body. But the sion, but that a more extensive mercantile acquaintance most general opinion is, that it was an entire calf, in imiwith the demands, habits, and tastes of particular markets, tation of the Apis worshipped by the Egyptians; among will conduce equally to his own interests and those of his whom, no doubt, the Israelites had acquired their propenemployers. From the variations of markets, and fluctua- sity to idolatry. This calf Moses is said to have burnt tions of mercantile transactions, there can be no precise with fire, reduced to powder, and strewed upon the water or definite limit to the extent of such knowledge. It is which the people were to drink. How this could be aconly by constant attention and sedulous inquiry that he complished has been a question. M. Stahl conjectures can preserve accuracy in what is liable to almost daily that Moses dissolved it by means of liver of sulphur. The change. His immediate employers will no doubt be often rabbin tell us that the people were made to.i.unk ot tins both able and desirous to supply him with this. But as even water, in order to distinguish the idolaters h om the rest, they must sometimes be liable to error or deception, he for that as soon as they had drunk of it, the beards of t ic ought to omit no opportunity of extending his inquiries, former turned red. The Cabbalists add, that the ca f and arriving, as nearly as he can, at the most comprehen- weighed 125 quintals ; which they gather fiom the Hebievv sive and unambiguous information. word massekah, whose numerical letters make 125. Calender of Monteith, a district in the south-west CALI, a town of Popayan, in South America, on t le corner of Perthshire, in Scotland, from which a branch of river Cauca, in a fertile and populous plain, abounding m 18 the ancient family of Livingstone had the title of earl, mines, vegetable productions, and cattle. Both estate and title were forfeited in consequence of the eighty-seven miles from Popayan. Long. / 6. ~3. W. possessor being engaged in the rebellion of 1715. Lat. 3.24. S. , . CALENDERS, a sort of Mahommedan friars, so called CALIAN, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Au-

!2 CAL Caliber rungabad, which was formerly of larger size and of greater , d IIlcut importance than it is at present, being now a poor place, ‘ inhabited by Mahommedans. It was exposed to many sieges during the wars which were carried on between the Mahommedans and the Mahrattas, and is now surrounded with the ruins of numerous forts. It still carries on some traffic in cocoa nuts, oil, coarse cloth, brass, and other ware. It is 32 miles north-east from Bombay, and 91 from Poonah. Long. 73. 12. E. Lat. 19. 17. N. CALIBER, Calibre, or Calliper, properly denotes the diameter of any body: thus we say, two columns of the same caliber, the caliber of the bore of a gun, the caliber of a bullet, &c. Caliber Compasses, a sort of compasses made with arched legs, to take the diameter of round or swelling bodies. See Compasses. • Caliber Buie, or Gunner s Callipers, is an instrument in which a right line is so divided that the first part being equal to the diameter of an iron or leaden ball of one pound weight, the other parts are to the first as the diameters of balls of two, three, four, or more pounds are to the diameter of a ball of one pound. The caliber is used by engineers, from the weight of the ball given to determine its diameter or caliber, or vice versa. The gunner’s callipers consist of two thin plates of brass joined by a rivet, so as to move quite round each other. Its length from the centre of the joint is between six inches and a foot, and its breadth from one to two inches ; that of the most convenient size is about nine inches long. Many scales, tables, and proportions, &c. may be introduced on this instrument; but none is essential to it except those for taking the caliber of shot and cannon, and for measuring the magnitude of salient and re-entering angles. CALICO, in commerce, a sort of cloth resembling linens, made of cotton. The name is taken from that of Calicut, a city on the coast of Malabar, being the first place at which the Portuguese landed when they discovered the India trade. The Spaniards still call it callicu. Calicoes are of different kinds, plain, printed, painted, stained, dyed, chintz, muslins, and the like, being all included under the general denomination of calicoes. Some of them are painted with various flowers of different colours; others are not stained, but have a stripe of gold and silver quite through the piece, and at each end is fixed a tissue of gold, silver, and silk, intermixed with flowers. Calico-Printing. See Dyeing. CALICUT, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Malabar, which extends along the sea coast, between the parallels of 10 and 12 degrees north latitude, about sixty or seventy miles, but is of inconsiderable breadth. It is fertile and productive, abounding generally in all sorts of Indian commodities, such as rice, cocoa nuts, betel nuts, black pepper, ginger, turmeric, &c. which are exported in exchange for articles of clothing. This district is inhabited by the sect of the Nairs, whose habits and customs are so singular. It was governed by the Tamuri rajahs until the Mussulman invasion; and Calicut became a flourishing city, owing to the success which its lords had in war, and the encouragement they gave to commerce. These princes were regularly crowned. All the males of their family are called Tamburans, and all the females Tamburetties. The children are also entitled to these appellations ; and, according to seniority, rise to the highest dignities that belong to the families. These Tamburetties are betrothed in their infancy, and are married at the age of ten ; but it would be reckoned scandalous to cohabit with their husbands; and they accordingly live in the houses of their brothers and mothers, and cohabit with Namburis, or Brahmins of high caste, whose sacred character is

CAL preferred, and sometimes by Nairs of the higher rank. Calicut The husband allows his wife clothes, ornaments, and sub- _ II sistence; and she lives in the house of his mother or bro- California, ther, cohabiting indiscriminately with Brahmins and Nairs, so that, according to this system of promiscuous intercourse, no man knows his own father. The oldest man of the family by the female line is the Tamuri. The English first began to frequent the zamorin’s dominions in 1664. In 1766 Hyder Ali invaded the country in person, and the Cochin rajah quietly submitted to pay tribute. But the pride of the rajah or zamorin, who pretends to be of a higher rank than the Brahmins, refused any kind of submission ; and after an unavailing resistance, being made prisoner, he set fire to the house in which he was confined, and was burned along with it; while several of his attendants who were accidentally excluded when he shut the door, threw themselves into the flames, and shared the fate of their master. Hyder being called away by a war in the dominions of the nabob of Arcot, the rajahs embraced the opportunity, and repossessed themselves of their lands, which they held for seven years. They were afterwards driven into Travancore. After nine years the British entered the country and took Palighat; but on the approach of Tippoo they were obliged to retreat. The rajahs continued in exile until 1790; but in the war with Tippoo they joined the British army; and in 1792 the country was ceded to the Company. Calicut, the capital of the preceding district, was formerly a magnificent and extensive city. The ancient town has long been submerged by the sea; and at very low tides the waves are said to break over the tops of the highest temples and minarets. The present town stands on the sea-shore, in a low and unsheltered situation, with narrow and dirty streets. It is, however, populous, and the seat of a considerable trade. The port is frequented by vessels from Arabia and the Red Sea for wood, which is the principal commodity ; as also spiceries, cardamums, piece goods, &c. It was at this city that Vasco de Gama arrived in May 1498, ten months and two days after he had departed from Lisbon. In 1509 the Portuguese attacked Calicut with 3000 troops; but they were repulsed with great loss, and the general was slain in the attack. This town was taken in 1773 by Hyder Ali, who expelled all the merchants and factors, destroyed the cocoa-nut trees, sandal-wood, and pepper vines, that the country, reduced to ruin, might present no temptation to the cupidity of Europeans. It was afterwards taken and destroyed by his son Tippoo Saib, who carried off the inhabitants to Beypoor. When the country was conquered by the English, they returned and rebuilt the town, which, in the year 1800, consisted of 5000 houses, for the most part mean edifices, inhabited by Moplays. The proper name of the place is Colicodu, which means the cock-crowing; the district of Colicodu being meant to include all the territory in which a cock crowing in a small temple could be heard. It is 76 miles W. of Coimbetore, and 95 S. W. of Seringapatam. Long. 75. 50. E. Lat. 11. 15. N. CALICOOTE, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, near the Chilcath Lake, 20 miles N. Wh from Ganjam. Long. 85. 21. E. Lat. 19. 20. N. CALIDUCT, in Antiquity, a kind of pipes or canal disposed along the walls of houses or apartments, used by the ancients for conveying heat to several remote parts of the house from one common furnace. . CALIFORNIA, New, a province of Mexico, or New Spain, which extends from the isthmus of Old California, or the bay of Todos Santos, to Cape Mendocino in north lat. 40. 19. It is a narrow stripe of land, stretching to 600 miles in length by thirty in breadth. The climate is more mild than in the same latitude on the eastern coast. The

CAL California, soil is as well watered and fertile as that of Old California is arid and stony. The aspect of the country is exceedingly picturesque and beautiful, and the inhabitants enjoy almost a perpetual spring. On every side are presented views of magnificent forests and verdant savannahs, whose numerous herds of deer, or elks of gigantic size, graze undisturbed in their sylvan retreats. The soil has easily admitted of different varieties of European vegetation ; and the vine, the olive, and wheat are successfully cultivated. There are great varieties of land and water game, and few countries in the world abound more in fish of every description. There are eighteen missionary settlements formed by the Spaniards on the coast of New Carolina; and, of all the colonial establishments, these have made the most rapid progress in civilization. The object of these settlements is, by instructing the natives in agriculture and other branches of industry, to reclaim them from their wandering and unsettled habits, and gradually to bend them under the restraints of social life. To a certain extent they have succeeded. Some of the Indians are employed in spinning woollen stuffs; but their principal occupation is in dressing stag-skins. The hunting of these stags is also a favourite pursuit, in which the natives display singular dexterity and address. San Francisco, the most northern military post or presidio, is situated upon an extensive bay of the same name, into which a large river empties itself. Near the mission of Santa Clara wheat produces from twenty-five to thirty for one, and requires very little culture. The harvest is reaped in July. San Carlos de Monterery is the seat of the governor of the two Californias. The port of Monterery is far from meriting the celebrity which it has received from the Spanish navigators; it is a bay with an indifferent anchorage. Santa Barbara, the principal town of a jurisdiction, is situated on a canal of the same name, formed by the continent and some small islands. The population of New California is estimated at about 15,000 souls, and its surface at 2125 square leagues. California, Old, a province of Mexico, or New Spain, was first discovered to be a peninsula in 1541. It is united on the north to the continent of North America, from which it is separated on the east by a narrow sea called the Gulf of California; and it is bounded on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. It is nearly 900 miles in length, and varies from thirty to a hundred and twenty miles in breadth. The climate is in general hot, dry, and barren ; but, in some spots where there are water and vegetable mould, fruit and corn multiply in an astonishing manner, and the vines afford a wine similar to that of the Canaries. The sky is of a deep blue colour, and seldom obscured by clouds; but when these are seen floating in the horizon towards sunset, they display the most brilliant tints of purple and emerald. The ground of this peninsula is rough and uneven, full of mountainous ridges and sandy and stony places. There runs through the centre a chain of mountains, of which the greatest elevation is from 4500 to 4900 feet above the level of the sea. A considerable number of wild quadrupeds, as well as a great variety of birds, are found here ; and there is met with a variety of the sheep of a very large size, which affords an exceedingly delicate and excellent food, and a wool which is easily spun. Wood is very scarce; and it is only towards the Cape Sanducas that any trees are to be found. Gold mines were at one time supposed to abound in this province, but all that have been discovered are only a few scanty veins. At the distance of forty leagues from Loretto there are two silver mines, which are considered as tolerably productive; but, from the want of wood and mercury, it is found almost impossible to work them. In the interior of the country there are plains covered with a very

CAL 23 beautiful crystalline salt. The coast of California sup- Caliga plies pearls of a beautiful water, and large, but of an irreII gular figure. Since the missions have been on the de- Caliph, cline, the population has been reduced to less than 9000 ' inhabitants, who are dispersed over a tract of country as large as England. Loretto, a little town with a military post, is the chief place of California. The inhabitants, Spaniards, Mestizos, and Indians, are supposed to amount to about 1000 in number. This is the most populous place of all California. CALIGA, in Roman Antiquity, was the proper soldier’s shoe, made in the sandal fashion, without upper leather to cover the superior part of the foot, though otherwise reaching to the middle of the leg, and fastened with thongs. The sole of the caliga was of wood, like the sabot of the French peasants, and its bottom stuck full of nails, which clavi are supposed to have been of considerable length in the shoes of the scouts and sentinels; whence these were called, by way of distinction, caligce speculatoricc ; as if, by elevating the wearer to a higher pitch, they gave a greater advantage to the sight; though others will have the caligcB speculatorice to have been made soft and woolly, to prevent their making a noise. From these caligce it was that the emperor Caligula took his name, as having been born in the army, and afterwards bred up in the habit of a common soldier. According to Du Cange, a sort of caliga was also worn by monks and bishops when they celebrated mass pontifically. CALIGATI, an appellation given by some ancient writers to the common soldiers in the Roman armies, by reason of the caliga which they wore. The caliga was the badge or symbol of a soldier ; and hence, to take away the caliga and belt, imported a dismission or cashiering. CALIGAWN, a town of Northern Hindustan, tributary to the chief of Nepaul, and situated in the country of the twenty-four rajahs. Long. 33. 56. E. Lat. 28. 40. N. CALIGULA, the Roman emperor and tyrant, a. d. 37, began his reign with every promising appearance of becoming the real father of his people; but at the end of eight months he was seized with a fever, which it is thought left a frenzy on his mind ; for his disposition totally changed, and he committed the most atrocious acts of impiety, cruelty, and folly, such as proclaiming his horse consul, feeding it at his table, introducing it into the temple in the vestments of the priests of Jupiter, and causing sacrifices to be offered to himself, his wife, and the horse. After having murdered many of his subjects with his own hand, and caused others to be put to death without any cause, he was assassinated by a tribune of the people as he came out of the amphitheatre, a. d. 41, in the twentyninth year of his age and fourth of his reign. CALIPH, or Khalif, the supreme ecclesiastical dignitary among the Saracens; or, as the term is otherwise defined, the sovereign dignitary among the Mahommedans, vested with absolute authority in all matters relating both to religion and policy. In the Arabic it signifies successor or vicar ; the caliphs bearing the same relation to Mahommed that the popes pretend they do to Jesus Christ or St Peter. It is at this day one of the grand signior’s titles, as successor of Mahommed; and of the sophi of Persia, as successor of Ali. One of the chief functions of the caliph, in quality of imaum or chief priest of Islamism, was to begin the public prayers every Friday in the chief mosque, and to deliver the khothbak or sermon. In after times they had assistants for this latter office ; but the former was always performed by the caliph in person. The caliph was also obliged to lead the pilgrims to Mecca in person, and to march at the head of the armies of his empire. He granted investiture to princes, and sent swords, standards, gowns, and the like, as presents, to princes of the Mahom-

CAL 24 Caliphate medan religion; who, though they had thrown off the yoke II of the caliphate, nevertheless held of it as vassals. The Calixtins. ca]iphs usually went to the mosque mounted on mules; anti the sultans Selgiucides, though masters of Bagdad, held their stirrups, and led their mules by the bridle some distance on foot, till such time as the caliphs gave them the sign to mount on horseback. At one of the windows of the caliph’s palace there always hung a piece of black velvet, twenty cubits long, which reached to the ground, and was called the caliph's sleeve ; which the grandees of his court never failed to kiss every day with great respect. After the destruction of the caliphate by Hulaku, the Mahommedan princes appointed a particular officer in their respective dominions, to sustain the sacred authority of caliph. In Turkey this officer goes under the denomination of mufti, and in Persia under that of sadne. CALIPHATE, the office or dignity of caliph. The successions of caliphs continued from the death of Mahommed till the 655th year of the hegira, when the city of Bagdad was taken by the Tartars. After this, however, there were persons who claimed the caliphate, as pretending to be of the family of the Abassides, and to whom thesultans of Egypt rendered great honours at Cairo, as the true successors of Mahommed ; but this honour was merely titular, and the right allowed them only in matters relating to religion ; and though they bore the sovereign title of caliphs, they were nevertheless subjects and dependents of the sultans. In the year of the hegira 361, a kind of caliphate was erected by the Fatemites in Africa, and lasted till it was suppressed by Saladin. Historians also speak of a third caliphate in Yemen or Arabia Felix, erected by some princes of the family of the Jobites. The emperors of Morocco assume the title of grand scherifs, and pretend to be the true caliphs, or successors of Mahommed, though under another name. See Arabia. C ALIPPIC Period, in Chronology, a series of seventysix years, perpetually recurring; which being elapsed, the middle of the new and full moons, as its inventor Calippus, an Athenian, imagined, return to the same day of the solar year. Meton, a hundred years before, had invented the period or cycle of nineteen years, assuming the quantity of the solar year to be 365d. 6h. 18m. 56s. 5033 4144 34;55, and that of the lunar month 29d. 12h. 45m. 47s. 26 48 3Q ; but Calippus, considering that the Metonic quantity of the solar year was not exact, multiplied Meton’s period by four, and thence arose a period of seventy-six years, called the Calippic. The Calippic period, therefore, contains 27,759 days; and since the lunar cycle contains 235 lunations, and the Calippic period is quadruple of this, it contains 940 lunations. This period began in the third year of the 112th Olympiad, or the 4384th of the Julian period. It may be demonstrated, however, that the Calippic period itself is not accurate, and that it does not bring the new and full moons precisely to their places; 8h. 5m. 52s. 603 being the excess of 940 lunations above seventy-six solar years; but brings them too late by a whole day in 225 years. CALISTA, in fabulous history, the daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, and one of the nymphs of Diana. Being beloved by Jupiter, that god assumed the form of the goddess of chastity, by which means he debauched her; but her disgrace being revealed as she was bathing with her patroness, the incensed deity turned her and the child with which she was pregnant into bears ; when Jupiter, in compassion for her sufferings, took them up into the heavens and made them the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. CALITRI, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Principato-Ulteriore, with 4540 inhabitants. CALIXTINS, a name given to those among the Lutherans who follow the sentiments of George Calixtus, a

CAL celebrated divine, and professor at Helmstadt in the duchy Calixtins of Brunswick, who died in 1656. He opposed the opinion Callao. of St Augustin on predestination, grace, and free will, and endeavoured to form an union among the various members of the Romish, Lutheran, and reformed churches; or rather to join them in the bonds of mutual forbearance and charity. Calixtins also denote a sect in Bohemia, derived from the Hussites, about the middle of the fifteenth century, who asserted that the use of the cup was essential to the eucharist. And hence their name, which is formed from the Latin calyx, a cup. The Calixtins are not ranked by Romanists in the list of heretics, since in the main they still adhered to the doctrine of Rome. The reformation they aimed at terminated in the four following articles : 1. in restoring the cup to the laity; 2. in subjecting criminal clerks to the punishment of the civil magistrate ; 3. in stripping the clergy of their lands, lordships, and all temporal jurisdiction ; 4. in granting liberty to all priests who were capable of preaching the word of God. CALKEN, a market-town in the province of East Flanders, in the Netherlands, containing 3940 inhabitants. CALL, among hunters, a lesson blown upon the horn to comfort the hounds. Call, among sailors, a sort of whistle or pipe, of silver or brass, used by the boatswain and his mates to summon the sailors to their duty, and direct them in the different employments in the ship. As the call can be sounded to various strains, each of them is appropriated to some particular exercise, such as hoisting, heaving, lowering, veering away, belaying, letting go a tackle, &c. The act of winding this instrument is called piping, which is as attentively observed by sailors as the beat of the drum to march, retreat, rally, or charge, is obeyed by soldiers. Call, among fowlers, the noise or cry of a bird, especially to its young, or to its mate in coupling time. CALL AC, a town of the department of Cote du Nord, in France, containing 1686 inhabitants. CALLACAND, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Tinnevilly, forty-two miles north by east of Cape Comorin. Long. 77. 44. E. Lat. 8. 31. N. CALL AN, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kilkenny, situated on the banks of King’s River. It consists of four streets intersecting each other at right angles. The church, once a stately fabric, is now nearly in ruins. On the east side of the town are the remains of an abbey which was founded in the fifteenth century, and consisted of fine architecture. Distillation is the only branch of industry of any consequence carried on here. Callan is an ancient place, and received certain privileges from the Earl of Marashall as far back as the year 1217. In 1821 the population amounted to 5678. CALLANDER, a village and parish of Scotland, in the county of Perth, situated on the river Teith. It is neatly built; and much resorted to by travellers, who come to visit the scenery around, which is uncommonly beautiful. The population in 1821 was 2031, and in 1831 1909. CALLAO, a strong town of South America, in Peru. It is the port of Lima, from which it is distant about two leagues. The town is built on a low flat point of land on the sea shore, not more than nine or ten feet above the level of high water mark; but the tide does not commonly rise or fall above five feet. The roadstead is beautiful, and one of the largest and safest in the South Sea. The water is without rocks, deep, and always tranquil. Callao is the rendezvous of from 16,000 to 17,000 tons of shipping, 5000 of which are reserved for the navigation of the Pacific. The houses are built of light materials; the circumstance of its almost never raining in this country rendering stone houses unnecessary, which are also more liable to be in-

CAL Callao jured by the earthquakes so frequent here. The most re|| markable of these occurred in 1746, when Callao was enCalli- tirely destroyed, and only two hundred inhabitants escaped, graphy. wag j-g^uiit on the same plan as before, hut a little farther from the sea. The population amounts to about 5000. Long. 77. 4. W. Lat. 12. 2. S. CALLAO, so called by its inhabitants, but more generally known to Europeans under the name of Campello, lies opposite to the coast of Cochin China, and about eight miles to the eastward of the mouth of a considerable river on the coast of Cochin China, upon the banks of which is situated the town of Faifoo, a place of some note, not far from the harbour of Turon. The only inhabited part of the island is on the south-west coast, upon a slip of ground rising gently to the east. This small spot, when the Chinese embassy visited the island, was beautifully laidout with neat houses, temples, clumps of trees, and small hillocks richly decoi'ated with shrubbery. The houses, which amounted to about sixty, were very clean and decent; a few were built with stone, and covered with tiles. The depth of water in the bay and road is sufficient for ships of any burden; and there is a perfect shelter from every wind except the south-west. It is thirty miles south-east of the harbour of Turon. The extreme points of the island lie in longitude 108. 30. E. and latitude 15. 53. N. CALLAS, a city of the department of the Var, in France. It has fourteen oil-mills, and 2095 inhabitants. CALLATABELLOTA, a city of Sicily, in the intendancy of Girgents, on a lofty mountain, containing 4500 inhabitants. CALLIAN, a market-town of the department of the Var, in France, in a district where there are coal mines, and where much glass is made. The inhabitants amount to 1823. CALLIANY, a large and populous town of Hindustan, in the province of Beeder, and the capital of a district of the same name, seventy-seven miles west by north of Hyderabad, and eighty-five east of Bejapoor. Long. 77. 33. E. Lat. 17. 22. N. CALLICRATES, an ancient sculptor, who engraved some of Homer’s verses on a grain of millet, made an ivory chariot that might be concealed under the wing of a fly, and an ant of ivory in which all the members were distinct. But Ailian justly blames him for exerting his genius and talents in things so useless, and at the same time so difficult. He flourished about the year 472 before Christ. CALLIGRAPHUS anciently denoted a copyist or scrivener, who transcribed fair, and at length, what the notaries had taken down in notes or minutes. The word is compounded of xaKkos, beauty, and ygapu, I write. The minutes of acts, &c. were always taken in a kind of cipher or shorthand, such as the notes of Tyro in Gruter, by which means the notaries, as the Latins called them, or the cr^s/oyga^o/ and ray^jy^acpoi, as the Greeks named them, were enabled to keep pace with a speaker or person who dictated. These notes, being understood by few, were copied over fair, and at length, by persons, who had a good hand, and who were called calligraphi, a name frequently met with in the ancient writers. CALLIGRAPHY, the art of fair writing. Callicrates is said to have written an elegant distich on a sesamum seed. Junius speaks of a person, as very extraordinary, who wrote the apostles’ creed and the beginning of St John’s Gospel in the compass of a farthing. What would he have said of our famous Peter Bale, who, in 1575, wrote the Lord’s prayer, creed, ten commandments, and two short prayers in Latin, with his own name, motto, day of the month, year of our Lord, and reign of the queen, in the compass of a single penny, enchased in a ring and border VOL. VI.

CAL 25 of gold, and covered with a crystal, all so accurately Callimawrought as to he perfectly legible? chus CALLIMACHUS, a celebrated architect, painter, and (aUin .11 er sculptor, born at Corinth, having seen by accident a ves- r j ] sel about which the plant called acanthus had raised its leaves, conceived the idea of forming the Corinthian capital ; and hence the Corinthian order of architecture. The ancients assure us that he worked in marble with wonderful delicacy. He flourished about 540 b. c. Callimachus, a celebrated Greek poet, and native of Cyrene, in Libya, flourished under Ptolemy Philadelphus and Ptolemy Euergetes, kings of Egypt, about 280 years before Christ. He passed, according to Quintilian, for the prince of the Greek elegiac poets. His style is elegant, delicate, and nervous. He wrote a great number of small poems, of which we have only some hymns and epigrams remaining. Catullus has closely imitated him, and translated into Latin verse his small poem on the locks of Berenice. Callimachus was also a good grammarian and a learned critic. There is an edition of his remains, by Lefevre, 4to, and another in two volumes 8vo, with notes by Spanheim, Grsevius, Bentley, and others. CALLINGAPATAM, a town of Hindustan, on the sea coast of the Northern Circars, seventy miles north-east from Vizagapatam. Long. 84. 15. E. Lat. 18. 25. N. CALLINGER, a district of Hindustan, in Bundelcund, and province of Allahabad, situated between the 24th and 26th degrees of north latitude. It is hounded on the north by the river Jumna, and on the west by Bundelcund; but to the east and south its boundaries are not distinctly defined. The country is mountainous. The river Cane runs through its whole extent from south to north, and falls into the Jumna at Jana. Its principal towns are Callinger, Senrab, and Attouah. The country produces ebony and diamonds, a few elephants, much iron, and a quantity of cotton. This country, from time immemorial, has been independent, until of late years. It was, indeed, frequently overrun by the Afghans, Moguls, and Mahrattas, and compelled to pay tribute; but the rajah still retained his fort and his title. In 1022 he was at the head of the Hindu confederacy against the Mahommedans. In 1803 this district was ceded by the Mahrattas to the British, and was completely subdued by their troops, when the rajah was forced to retire on a pension. The natives are Hindus of the Rajpoot tribe. Callinger, a strong town and celebrated fortress of Hindustan, and capital of the above district. It is built of stone on the top of a lofty mountain, is five miles in circumference, and is well supplied with water from several tanks which are inclosed within it. It is surrounded by a thick wood, which, though it adds to its strength, renders it unhealthy. This fort has been often besieged, but generally without success. The celebrated Mahmoud of Ghizne attempted its capture in 1024, but without success; and Lhen Shah, the Afghan who expelled the Emperor Humayon from the throne of Hindustan in 1545, was slain in attempting to take it. From the want of a battering train in the early periods of Indian history, it was found impracticable to take so strong a fortress; and the siege was generally converted into a blockade, though ultimately without success. A garrison of 5000 men would he required to defend the works. In 1810 the British laid regular siege to the fortress, which had become a rallying point for all the banditti of the country ; but they were repulsed with great slaughter in an attempt to carry this stronghold by storm. So intimidated, however, was the garrison by their determined efforts, that they evacuated the place during the night. Since this period it has been garrisoned by a battalion of native infantry and a detachment of European artillery. There are faD

26 CAL Callino mous diamond mines to the south of this fort. Long. 80. ^ II 25. E. Lat. 24. 58. N. CALLINO, a town of Itaty, in the Neapolitan province Abruzzo Ulteriore, with 1400 inhabitants. CALLINUS of Ephesus, a very ancient Greek poet, and the inventor of elegiac verse, some specimens of which are to be found in the collection of Stobceus. He flourished about 776 years before Christ. CALLIONDROG, a town and fortress of Hindustan, on the west side of the river Noggry, in the Mysore, forty-four miles south by east from Bellary. Long. 77. 9. E. Lat. 14. 30. N. CALLIOPE, in Pagan Mythology, the muse who presides over eloquence and heroic poetry. She was thus named from the sweetness of her voice, and was reckoned the first of the nine sisters. Her distinguishing office was to record the worthy actions of the living; and accordingly she is represented with tablets in her hand. C ALLIP7EDIA, the art of getting or breeding fine and beautiful children. Divers rules and practices relating to this art are to be found in ancient and modern writers. Claude Quillet de Chinon, a French abbot, under the fictitious name of Clavicles Lcetus, has published a Latin poem in four books, under the title of Callipcedia, sen de pulchrce prolis habendce ratione, in which are contained all the precepts of that art. Mr Rowe translated this poem into verse. C ALLIRRHOE, in Ancient Geography, surnamed Enneacrunos from its nine springs or channels, a fountain not far from Athens, greatly adorned by Peisistratus, where there were several wells, but this the only running spring. Callirrhoe was also the name of a very fine spring of hot water beyond Jordan, near the Dead Sea, into which it empties itself. CALLISTEA, in Grecian Antiquity, a Lesbian festival, in which the women presented themselves in Juno’s temple, and the prize was assigned to the fairest. There was another of these contentions at the festival of Ceres Eleusinia among the Parrhasians, and another among the Eleans, where the most beautiful man was presented with a complete suit of armour, which he consecrated to Minerva, to whose temple he walked in procession, being accompanied by his friends, who adorned him with ribbons, and crowned him with a garland of myrtle. C ALLISTHENE S, the philosopher, disciple, and relation of Aristotle, by whose desire he accompanied Alexander the Great in hisexpeditions ; but proving too severe a censurer of that hero's conduct, he was by him put to the torture, on a suspicion of a treasonable conspiracy, and died under the infliction, 328 years before Christ. CALLISTRATUS, an excellent Athenian orator, was banished for having obtained too great an authority in the government. Demosthenes was so struck with the force of his eloquence, and the glory it procured to him, that he abandoned Plato, and resolved from thenceforward to apply himself to oratory. CALLOT, James, a celebrated engraver, was born at Nancy in 1593. In his youth he travelled to Rome to learn designing and engraving, and thence proceeded to Florence, where the grand duke took him into his service. After the death of that prince, Callot returned to his native country, where he was very favourably received by Henry duke of Lorrain, who settled a considerable pension upon him. His reputation having soon afterwards spread all over Europe, the infanta of the Netherlands drew him to Brussels, where he engraved the siege of Breda. Louis XIII. caused him design the siege of Rochelle, and that of the Isle of Rhe. The French king having taken Nancy in 1631, made Callot a proposal for representing that new conquest, as he had already done the taking of Rochelle; but Callot begged to be excused; and some courtiers re-

C A L solving to oblige him to do it, he answered, that he would Callow sooner cut off his thumb than do any thing against the II honour of his prince and country. This excuse the king Calmont. accepted; and said that the Duke of Lorrain was happy in having so faithful and affectionate subjects. Callot followed his business so closely, that, though he died at fortythree years of age, he is said to have left of his own execution about fifteen hundred pieces. CALLOW, a town in the province of East Flanders, on the left bank of the Scheldt, with 2030 inhabitants. CALLVIZZANO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom and province of Naples, with 2200 inhabitants. CALLYGONG Hills, a range of mountains in Hindustan, the south-west part of a ridge which runs along the south bank of the river Nerbuddah. They have been but little explored. CALM, the state of rest which exists in the air and sea when there is no wind stirring. Calms are never so great on the ocean as on the Mediterranean, because the flux and reflux of the former keep the water in a continual agitation, even where there is no wind ; whereas, there being no tides in the latter, the calm is sometimes so dead that the face of the water is as clear as a looking-glass; but such calms are almost constant presages of an approaching storm. On the coasts about Smyrna -a long calm is reputed a prognostic of an earthquake. Calm Latitudes, in sea language, are situated in the Atlantic Ocean, between the tropic of Cancer and the latitude of 29° north ; or they denote the space that lies between the trade and variable winds, because it is frequently subject to calms of long duration. CALMAR, a province of Sweden, formed out of the eastern part of Smaland, and the island Oeland. It is bounded on the north-west and north by Lenkoping, on the east by the Baltic Sea, on the south by Blekinge, and on the west by Cronberg and Jonkoping. The extent is 4312 square miles. The population is 148,396, inhabiting four cities, one market-town, and 3485 villages. Calmar, a city, the capital of the Swedish province of the same name. It is built on the island of Quarnholm, on the Baltic Sea, and is connected with the main land by a bridge of boats. It is a well-built town, the seat of a bishop, and of the provincial courts of law. It is surrounded with walls, has a cathedral, a gymnasium, with 491 houses, and 3058 inhabitants, who carry on manufactures of woollen cloth, of leather, of glass, and the making of pearl ashes ; and export, chiefly to Great Britain, pitch, tar, and timber. In former times it was a place of much more importance than it is at present; and the remains of it are to be seen in an old castle, palace, and house of assembly, now in ruins, not far from the city. Long. 16. 8. E. Lat. 56. 14. N. CALMET, Augustine, one of the most learned and laborious writers of the eighteenth century, was born at Mesnil le Horgne, a village in the diocese of Toul, in France, in the year 1672, and took the habit of the Benedictines in 1688. Among the many works he published are, 1. A literal Exposition, in French, of all the Books of the Old Testament, in nine volumes folio; 2. An historical, critical, chronological, geographical, and literal Dictionary of the Bible, in four volumes folio, enriched with a great number of figures of Jewish antiquities; 3. A civil and ecclesiastical History of Lorrain, three volume folio ; 4. A History of the Old and New Testament, and of the Jews, in two volumes folio, and seven volumes duodecimo ; 5. An universal sacred and profane History, in several volumes quarto. He died in 1757. CALMONT, a town in the department of the Upper Garonne, in France, with 1522 inhabitants. CALMUCKS. See Kalmucks.

GAL Caine CALNE, a market ami borough town in the hundred II of the same name in Wiltshire, ninty-one miles from LonCalvados. on t}ie roacl to Bath. It is chiefly built of stone raised in the neighbourhood. It is situated on the river Marlow, which runs through the lower part of the town. The market is held on Tuesday. The greater part of the inhabitants are occupied in the woollen trade. The population consisted in 1811 of 3547, in 1821 of 4549, and in 1831 of 4795. CALOGERI, in Ecclesiastical History, monks of the Greek church, divided into three degrees; the novices, called archari; the ordinary professed, called michrochemi; and the more perfect, called megalochemi. They are likewise divided into coenobites, anchorites, and recluses. The coenobites are employed in reciting their offices from midnight to sunset; they are obliged to make three genuflexions at the door of the choir, and, returning, to bow to the right and to the left, to their brethren. CALORIC. See Chemistry. CALOSA, a town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, with 3200 inhabitants. Manufactures of earthen-ware and esparto are carried on here. CALOTTE, a cap or coif of hair, satin, or other stuff; an ecclesiastical oraament in most Popish countries. CALOWZ, a mountainous and woody district of Hindustan, principally situated in the province of Lahore, about the 32d degree of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by Kaugrah, on the east by Besseer, on the south by Nhan, and on the west by the Punjab. Its capital is Bellaspore, and it is nearly divided by the river Sutlege. The inhabitants are Hindoos and Seiks. CALPE, a mountain of Andalusia, in Spain, at the foot of which, towards the sea, stands the town of Gibraltar. It is half a league in height towards the land, and so steep that there is no approaching it on that side. CALPURNIUS, Titus, a Latin Sicilian poet, who lived under the Emperor Carus and his son. Seven of his eclogues are extant. CALTAGIRONE, a city of the intendancy of Catania, in the island of Sicily. It is in a healthy situation on a hill watered by the river Terra Nova. It has a university and other establishments for education. The environs are rich in all the appropriate agricultural productions ; and the city supplies a large surrounding district with earthenware and other manufactured goods. It contains 2868 houses and 19,600 inhabitants. CALUSO, a town of Italy, in the province Ivrea, and kingdom of'Sardinia, with 2850 inhabitants. CALVADOS, a department of France, formed out of that part of Lower Normandy formerly distinguished as Bessin, Bocage, Champagne de Caen, Auge, and Lieurain. It has received its present name from a chain of rocks so called, at a small distance from the shore, between the mouths of the rivers Orne and Bire, about sixteen miles in extent. It is bounded on the north by the sea, on the east by the department of the Eure, on the south by that of Orne, and on the west by that of Manche. The extent is 1123 square miles, or 570,400 hectares. It is divided into six arrondissements, and subdivided into thirty-seven cantons, formed out of 896 communes, which contain 505,420 inhabitants. The face of the country is undulating, with no lofty hills or deep valleys. The streams are numerous, but of short course; and the few of them, as the Orne and the Bire, that are navigable, are only so to a short distance from their mouths. The soil in the valleys is alluvial, and forms excellent pasture. On the plains it is a mixture of clay and chalk, but in the more hilly district of the south it is sandy, resting on a subsoil partly of chalk and slate and partly of clay and granite. The climate is clear and healthy, but rather more inclined to

CAL 27 moisture than to dryness; and in the latter end of the Caltura summer, when the wind is westerly, it is commonly cold II and rainy. The winter is much prolonged. As the land is Calvertmore adapted to the breeding and fattening of cattle than to arable cultivation, the department scarcely produces more corn than is equal to half the consumption of the year; but its surplus of butter, cheese, and meat, is exchanged for grain with the surrounding districts. The breed of sheep is far inferior to that of cows, and the wool is by no means of good quality. Fruit is abundant, especially apples and pears, the cider from which supplies the place of wine, which the department does not produce. Flemp and flax are raised, of good quality, and equal to the internal demand. Manufactures are established in many of the towns, and are flourishing. They afford clothing of wool, cotton, aild linen, equal to their own demand, and supply other parts with a portion. There are some fisheries on the coast. Coal is also found, and some iron, but the mines are not extensively worked. Fuel is provided partly from the forests, but in a greater degree from the turf of the heaths. CALTURA, a village and small port on the west coast of the island of Ceylon, twenty-eight miles to the south of Columbo, situated on the river Caltura, which is one of the largest branches of the Muliwaddy, and is there about a mile broad. Arrack and rum are manufactured here, and there is a large plantation of sugar-canes, with tracts of cinnamon, scattered in the vicinity. CALVART, Denis, a celebrated painter, was born at Antwerp in 1552, and had for his masters Prospero Fontana and Lorenzo Sabbatini. He opened a school at Bologna, which became celebrated, and from which proceeded Guido, Albani, and other great masters. Calvart was well skilled in architecture, perspective, and anatomy, which he considered as necessary to a painter, and taught them to his pupils. His principal works are at Bologna, Rome, and Reggio. He died at Bologna in 1619. CALVARY, a term used in Catholic countries for a kind of chapel of devotion, raised on a hillock near a city, in memory of the place where Jesus Christ was crucified near the city of Jerusalem. The word is derived from the Latin calvarium; and that from calvus, bald, in respect the top of the hillock was bare and destitute of verdure; which is also signified by the Hebrew wordgolgotha. Calvary, in Heraldry, a cross so called, because it is supposed to resemble the cross on which our Saviour suffered. It is always set upon steps. CALVERT, George, afterwards Lord Baltimore, was born at Kipling in Yorkshire about the year 1582, and educated at Oxford, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterwards travelled. At his return he was made secretary to Sir Robert Cecil: he was afterwards knighted, and in 1618 appointed one of the principal secretaries of state. But after he had enjoyed that post about five years, he willingly resigned it; frankly owning to his majesty that he had become a Roman Catholic, so that he must either be wanting to his trust, or violate his conscience in discharging his office. This ingenuous confession so affected King James, that he continued him privy counsellor all his reign, and the same year created him baron of Baltimore in the kingdom of Ireland. He had before obtained a patent for himself and his heirs, of the province of Avelon in Newfoundland ; but that being exposed to the insults of the French, he abandoned it, and afterwards obtained the grant of a country in the northern part of Virginia from Charles I. who called it Maryland, in honour of his queen. He died, however, in April 1632, aged fifty, before the patent was made out. But it was filled up to his son Cecil Calvert Lord Baltimore, and bears date the 20th of June 1632. It is held from the crown

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CAL CAL as part of the manor of Windsor, on one very singular con- vigour of his mind, by obliging the people to abjure Popery, Calvin, and swear to a code of religious belief. He carried the name Indian arrows yearly, East- assumption of ecclesiastical authority so far, however, that , Oah _ Jin ' j er Tuesday, ly> at to thepresent castle,two where they are kept andonshown t-0 visitors. His lordship wrote, 1. A Latin poem on the resistance succeeded; and the Catholic party prevailing, Death of Sir Henry Upton; 2. Speeches in Parliament; he was compelled to quit Geneva. He went to Strasburg, 3. Various Letters of State ; 4. The Answer of Tom Tell- where he established a French church according to his truth; 5. The Practice of Princes; and, 6. The Lamen- own plan, and was also preferred to the professorship of divinity. Here he married the widow of an Anabaptist, tation of the Kirk. CALVI, an arrondissement of the island of Corsica, 550 and published his Commentaries on the Epistle to the Rosquare miles in extent, divided into six cantons, and these mans. He also wrote an able reply to Cardinal Sadolet, into thirty-one communes, containing 18,603 inhabitants. who had published a work exhorting the Genevese to reThe capital is a fortified city of the same name, on the turn again to the Catholic church. In the mean time, his western side of the island, with a good haven. It contains party at Geneva having laboured assiduously for his recal, 400 houses and 2164 inhabitants. Long. 8. 50. E. Lat. he yielded at last to their entreaties, and triumphantly returned to the scene of his former labours in 1541. 42. 30. N. His plan of church government he now matured and CALVIN, John, the mos't eminent of the reformers from Popery after Luther, and, from the large body of established. Indeed his whole system, both of doctrine Christians distinguished by his name, deemed entitled to and ecclesiastical discipline, was maintained and promoted equality with him, was born at Noyou, in Picardy, in 1509. with all the energy, firmness, and perseverance for which His father was a cooper in that place, and bore the name of he was so distinguished. He formed the lofty idea of makChauvin or Cauvin, which his son afterwards latinized into ing Geneva the mother and seminary of all the reformed Calvinus, whence originated the usual appellation of Cal- churches; and for this purpose he established an academy, vin, by which he has ever since been distinguished. Some the character of which was eminently sustained by his own traits of early piety evincing themselves in Calvin, he was, great learning and ability, as well as by that of Beza and like Samuel, from his infancy designed by his family for other distinguished reformers. The result realized his the church. The first benefice presented to him was in hopes; for every country on which the reformation had the cathedral of his native place, to which was afterwards shed its propitious influence sent forth a portion of its added the rectory of Pont 1’Eveque. He had not as yet youth to study at the feet of the new Gamaliel. The received priest’s orders, but only the tonsure, when his three great points distinguishing the system of Calvin from father changed his mind, and requested him to study the that of the other reformed churches consisted in the incivil law. This was the more readily assented to by the dependence of church government of the civil power; young divine, as he had already become disgusted with the real though spiritual presence of the Saviour in the some of the practices of his own church. Accordingly he sacrament; and the absolute decree of God by which porrepaired first to Orleans, and afterwards to Bourges, to tions of the human race are predestined from all eternity pursue his new professional career. Divinity, however, to everlasting happiness or misery. With the same boldwas not neglected, for he still continued to cultivate it in ness which he had displayed in conceiving, did he maintain private with unslackened assiduity. His father dying, he his system, not only by his writings and extensive influence* returned to Noyou ; and resigning his benefice, set out for which reached wherever the new opinions prevailed, but Paris, where he wrote his commentary on Seneca’s trea- also by his form of ecclesiastical discipline, and a consistise De dementia, upon the title-page of which he first as- torial jurisdiction which had the power of inflicting canosumed the name of Calvinus. He now began to be iden- nical punishments. The latter were sometimes dispensed tified with the reformers ; but a storm having burst on them with unpardonable severity; so much so, indeed, that many in Paris, he was compelled to fly from that city. He re- apprehended that the reign of papal tyranny was to be repaired to Angouleme, where he subsisted some time by vived under a new disguise. One or two facts show that Calteaching Greek; and receiving shelter in the house of a vin had imbibed a portion of the persecuting spirit of that converted canon, he composed the greater portion of his church which he had forsaken. His treatment of Castalio Institutes. The Queen of Navarre favoured his doctrines ; and others was .extremely harsh, but his conduct to Serand, under cover of her protection, he once more ventured vetus was altogether barbarous. That ill-fated individual to return to Paris in 1534 ; but a further persecution being haying fled from papal wrath, was seized at the instigation again threatened, he finally quitted France, and retired of Calvin, and condemned to the flames. The spirit of the to Basel, in Switzerland, where he published his famous age was of a persecuting character, and had its full influence Christian Institutes. This work was dedicated to Francis I. on the mind of Calvin. Besides, religious liberty was not the in an elegant Latin epistle. It was designed to give a fair primary object of the reformers ; it has rather been the review of the religious principles of the reformed, which had sult of their labours. Thus philosophy may, to a certain exalready been confounded by their enemies with those of tent, palliate the crime, for such it must be called; but it has the Anabaptists and other sects. In these circumstances, left a blot upon Calvin, from which it will be vain for his it is not surprising that it obtained immediate popularity. warmest eulogist even to attempt to purify his name. It went rapidly through several editions, and was trans- But though the rigour of his proceedings sometimes oclated into all the principal modern languages. The bold- casioned great tumults in the city, nothing could shake ness and originality of the speculations, the talent with his steadiness and inflexibility. Amongst all the disturbwhich the work was composed, and the effects which it ances of the commonwealth, he exercised a paternal solihas produced upon the religious belief of Christians, en- citude for the foreign churches in England, France, Gertitle it to be looked upon as one of the most remarkable many, and Poland; and did more by his pen than his books that ever appeared. After its publication, the au- presence, sending his advice and instructions by letter, thor repaired to Italy on a visit to the Duchess of Ferrara, and writing a number of works. After a life of incessant a convert to his doctrines; and returning to France* took labour and study, which, it is reasonable to believe, maGeneva on his way, where, at the urgent request of seve- terially shortened his days, this great reformer died in ral eminent reformers, he was induced to remain, filling the May 1564, having nearly completed the fifty-fifth year of offices of preacher and professor of divinity. He entered his age. upon these in 1536, and soon evinced the firmness and Calvin possessed in an eminent degree those qualities

CAL Calvinism which fit an individual for being the head of a party. || The leading characteristic of his mind was commanding Calumet, power. He had a clear and comprehensive understanding, which not only enabled him with facility to unravel the tangled web of sophistry, but also to construct from the wreck he had made a system of his own ; and a firmness and inflexibility of purpose which tended to wed him for ever to the cause he had espoused, with a devotedness which no opposition could overcome, and no vicissitude could shake. There was certainly an alloy of human error and weakness in his temper and character; but this is only saying that nothing human reaches the standard of perfect rectitude. His faults primarily resulted from those very energies which gave him pre-eminence. Indomitable firmness imparts a certain sternness to the deportment, and not unfrequently degenerates into a spirit of persecution. But the benefits which mankind derive from such a constitution of intellect, when the moral bias is good, are generally of such a magnitude as totally to counterbalance those minor defects to which the rancour of party spirit would wish to give undue prominence. In this light we must view Calvin; not so much a patron to be imitated in all respects, as a benefactor to be revered. He must take his place beside the illustrious Luther. They are twin stars, the brightest of that constellation of lights by whose effulgence was dispelled the long night of darkness under the cloud of which the energies of men had suffered eclipse ; and having emerged, they shone forth with a brilliance and glory unparalleled in the history of the world. In his principles Calvin was devoutly sincere, and the purity of his “ walk and conversation” in private life is unimpeachable. His writings are numerous ; for, besides the Institutes, and many controversial productions, he published learned commentaries upon most of the books of the New, and on the Prophets of the Old Testament. His opinions are now, however, better known than his writings ; and his doctrine of predestination in particular, connected as it is with the philosophy of necessity, will probably supply matter of speculative debate for the controversialists of all future times. CALVINISM, the doctrine and sentiments of Calvin and his followers. See Theology. Crypto-Calvinists, a name given to the favourers of Calvinism in Saxony, on account of their secret attachment to the Genevan doctrine and discipline. Many of them suffered by the decrees of the convocation of Torgau, held in 1576. The Calvinists in their progress have divided into various branches or lesser sects. CALVISIUS, Seth, a celebrated German chronologer in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani, et duplex Calendarii melioris forma, and other learned works, together with some excellent treatises on music. He died in 1617, aged sixty-one. CALUMET, a symbolical instrument of great importance among the American Indians. It is nothing more than a pipe, whose bowl is generally made of a soft red marble, and the tube of a very long reed, ornamented with the wings and feathers of birds. No affair of consequence is transacted without the calumet. It ever appears in meetings of commerce or exchanges; in congresses for determining of peace or war ; and even in the very fury of a battle. The acceptance of the calumet is a mark of concurrence with the terms proposed, as the refusal is a certain mark of rejection. Even in the rage of a conflict this pipe is sometimes offered ; and if accepted, the weapons of destruction instantly drop from their hands, and a truce ensues. It seems the sacrament of the savages ; for no compact is ever violated which is confirmed by a whiff from this holy reed. When they treat of war, the pipe and all its ornaments are usually red, or sometimes

CAL 29 red only on one side. The size and decorations of the Calumny calumet are for the most part proportioned to the quality || of the persons to whom they are presented, and to the Calypso, importance of the occasion. The calumet of peace is different from that of war. They make use of the former to seal their alliances and treaties, to travel with safety, and to receive strangers ; but the latter is employed to proclaim war. It consists of a red stone, like marble, formed into a cavity resembling the head of a tobacco pipe, and fixed to a hollow reed. They adorn it with feathers of various colours, and name it the calumet of the sun, to which luminary they present it, in expectation of thereby obtaining a change of weather as often as they desire. From the winged ornaments of the calumet, and its conciliating uses, writers compare it to the caduceus of Mercury, which was carried by the caduceatores, or messengers of peace, with terms to the hostile states. It is singular, that the most remote nations, and the most opposite in their other customs and manners, should in some things have, as it were, a certain consent of thought. The Greeks and the Americans had the same idea, in the invention of the caduceus of the one, and the calumet of the other. CALUMNY, the crime of accusing another falsely, and knowingly so, of some heinous offence. Oath of Calumny, Juramentum, or rather Jusjurandum, Calumnice, or de Calumnia, among civilians and canonists, was an oath which both parties in a cause were obliged to take ; the plaintiff that he did not bring his charge, and the defendant that he did not deny it, with a design to abuse each other, but because they believed their cause was just and good; that they would not deny the truth, nor create unnecessary delays, nor offer the judge or evidence any gifts or bribes. If the plaintiff refused this oath, the complaint or libel was dismissed; if the defendant, he was held pro confesso. This custom was taken from the ancient athletae, who, before they engaged, were bound to swear that they had no malice, nor would use any unfair means for overcoming each other. The juramentum calumnice is much disused, as a great occasion of perjury. CALVISSON, a city of the department of Gard, in France, on the river Escates, with 500 houses and 2790 inhabitants. CALVUS, Cornelius Licinius, a celebrated Roman orator, was the friend of Catullus, and flourished sixtyfour years b. c. Catullus, Ovid, and Horace, spe^of him. CALX properly signifies lime, but has been used by chemists and physicians for a fine powder remaining after the calcination of metals. CALYBITES, the inhabitants of a cottage ; an appella- f tion given to divers saints on account of their long residence in some hut, by way of mortification. The word is formed from koCKv'Ktu, tego, I cover ; whence xa/.uSry, a little cot. The Romish church commemorates St John the Calybite on the 15th of December. CALYCISTiE, systematic botanists, so named by Linnaeus, who have arranged all vegetables from the different species, structui'e, and other circumstances, of the calyx or flower-cup. The only systems of this kind are the Character Plantarum Novus, a posthumous work of Magnolius, professor of botany at Montpelier, published in 1720; and Linnaeus’s Methodus Calycina, published in his Classes Plantarum, at Leyden, in 1738. CALYDON, in Ancient Geography, a town of iEtolia, situated seven miles and a half from the sea, and divided by the river Evenus. The country was anciently called ASolis, from the /Eolians, its inhabitants. This country was famous for the story of Meleager and the Calydonian boar. CALYPSO, in fabulous history, a goddess who was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, or, as others say, of

30 C A M Calyx Atlas. She was queen of the island of Ogygia, which II from her was called the island of Calypso. According to Camana. Homer, Ulysses suffered shipwreck on her coast, and staid wJth her several years. CALYX, among botanists, a general term, expressing the cup of a flower, or that part of a plant which surrounds and supports the other parts of the flower. See Botany. CAMAIEU, or Camayeu, a word used to express a peculiar sort of onyx; also a stone, on which are found various figures, and representations of landscapes, or the like, formed by a kind of lusus naturce, so as to exhibit pictures without painting. It is of these camaieux Pliny is to be understood as speaking when he says of the manifold pictures of gems, and the particoloured spots of precious stones : Gemmarum pictura tam multiplex lapidumque tam discolores macula:. Camaieu is also frequently applied to any kind of gem on which figures are engraved either indentedly or in relievo. In this sense the lapidaries of Paris are called, in their statutes, cutters of camaieux. A society of learned men at Florence undertook to procure all the cameos or camaieux and intaglios in the great duke’s gallery to be engraven ; and began to draw the heads of different emperors in cameos. Camaieu is also used for a painting, where there is only one colour, and where the lights and shadows are of gold, wrought on a golden or azure ground. When the ground is yellow, the French call it cirage; when gray, grissaile. This kind of work is chiefly used to represent basso relievos. The Greeks call pieces of such sort go'ioCAMALDULIANS, Camaldunians, or Camaldolites, an order of religious persons, founded by Romuald, an Italian fanatic, in 1023, in the horrible desert of Camaldoli, otherwise called Campo Malduli, situated in the state of Florence, on the Apennines. Their rule is that of St Benedict; and their houses, by the statutes, can never be less than five leagues from cities. The Camaldidians have not borne that title from the beginning of their order ; till the close of the eleventh century they were called Romualdins, from the name of their founder. Previously, Camaldulian was a particular name for those of the desert Camaldoli, and, Grandi observes, was not given to the whole order in respect it was in this monastery that the order commenced, but because the regulation was best maintained here. Guido Grandi, mathematician of the grand duke of Tuscany, and a monk of this order, has published Camaldulian Dissertations on the origin and establishment of the order. The Camaldulites were distinguished into two classes, of which the one were Coenobites, and the other Eremites. CAMALODUNUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Trinobantes, the first Roman colony in Britain. From the Itineraries it appears to have stood where Malden now stands. It continued to be an open town under the Romans, a place of pleasure rather than strength, yet not unadorned with splendid works, as a theatre and a temple of Claudius; which the Britons had considered as badges of slavery, and which gave rise to several seditions and commotions. CAMANA, a province of Peru, bounded on the northwest and north by the province of lea, on the north-east by that of Lucanas, on the east by those of Pavinacochas and Condesuios, on the south-east by that of Collahuas, and on the west by the South Sea. It is about twenty-five leagues in length, by about fourteen in breadth at the widest part. It consists of a series of valleys, which for the most part terminate in the coast. These abound in vines,

CAM of which brandy is made ; but they are liable to suffer from Camand drought, there being little rain except during the months arnII of January, February, and March. Towards the moun- C !>a: tainous ridges of the Andes it is, however, more frequent. Gold mines are situated in this neighbourhood; but, from the difficulty of working them, they yield but little profit. Camana, the capital of the province, stands upon the river Mages, about two leagues from the sea. The inhabitants are about 1500 in number ; but they were formerly more considerable. It is 70 miles west of Arequipa. Lat. 16. 17. S. CAMANDOO, a town of Hindustan, in the territory of the Seiks, in the province of Lahore, situated on the east side of the Beyah river, 124 miles north-east from the city of Lahore. Long. 75. 50. E. Lat. 32. 26. N. CAMARANA, an island of Arabia, in the Red Sea, where the natives fish for coral and pearls. Lat. 15. 0. N. CAMASSEI, or Camace, Andrea, painter of history and landscape, was born at Bevagna, and at first learned the principles of design and colouring from Domenichino ; but afterw ards he studied in the school of Andrea Sacchi, and proved a very great painter. He was employed in St Peter’s at Rome, as also at St John Lateran ; and his works are extremely admired for the sweetness of his colouring,'the elegance of his thoughts and design, and likewise for the delicacy of his pencil. Sandrart laments that the world was deprived of so promising a genius in the very bloom of life, when his reputation was daily advancing. He died in 1657. CAMBAY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and the port of Ahmedabad, situated at the upper part of the Gulf of Cambay, and supposed to be the Camanes of Ptolemy. It was formerly a very flourishing city, the seat of an extensive commerce. But it decayed with Ahmedabad in Gujerat, in the supplying of which its chief commerce consisted, and it is now much reduced. Other causes also are assigned for its decay, namely, the danger of navigating the Gulf of Cambay, owing to the great rapidity of the tides, which rise here to the height of forty feet, so that at high water ships can anchor near the town; but at low water the river runs almost dry, so that the vessels in the river lie aground in the mud; and in some places the current is so rapid that a ship which takes the ground is immediately upset, and all on board generally perish. The trade has in consequence decreased, and is now chiefly confined to elephants’ teeth and cornelians, which are here procured for the China market, and to cotton, which is the chief article of export, and grain. The houses are built of stone or brick; and the town is surrounded by a brick wall nearly five miles in circumference, inclosing four large reservoirs of good water, and three bazars. Many of these houses have underground apartments, where the people were in the habit of concealing their females and their valuable property in times of alarm. To the south-east of the town there are very extensive ruins of subterranean temples and other buildings, half buried in the sand with which the ancient town was overwhelmed. These temples belong to the Jains, and contain two massive statues of their deities, the one black and the other white. The principal one, as the inscription intimates, is Pariswanath or Parswanatha, carved and consecrated in the reign of the emperor Acbar in 1502; the black one has the date of 1651 inscribed. Cambay is supposed about the fifth century to have been the capital of the Hindoo emperors of the west; and in 1515 a Portuguese writer, Osorio, says, that when Francis d’Almeida landed near Cambay, he saw the ruins of sumptuous buildings and temples, the ruins of an ancient city. In 1780 it was taken possession of by the army of General Goddard, and restored to the Mahrattas in 1783. It was again taken

CAM ,:ambaves possession of by the British, and confirmed to them at the || peace of 1803. The travelling distance from Bombay is rv Camblet. 281, from Delhi 663, and from Calcutta 1253 miles. Long. 72. 45. E. Lat. 22. 23. N. The Gulf of Cambay penetrates the north-west coast of India, in the province of Gujerat, about 150 miles. It is supposed that the depth of water in this gulf has been decreasing for more than two centuries past. The tides run into it with amazing velocity ; and at low water, during spring tides, the bottom is left dry from latitude 22. 3. (north to the town of Cambay. Fifteen miles east of Cambay the bed of the gulf is not above six miles broad, and at low water it is left entirely dry. But the passage is extremely dangerous, and cannot be attempted without a native guide, the whole surface being covered with deep mud and quicksands, in which the traveller, losing his way, may be overwhelmed by the flood-tide, which rushes furiously into the gulf, and with such rapidity, as scarcely at times to admit of escape either by man or horse. CAMBAYES, in commerce, cotton cloths made at Bengal, Madras, and some other places on the coast of Coromandel. CAMBER, according to our monkish historians, one of the three sons of Brute, who, upon his father’s death, had that part of Britain assigned him for his share called from him Cambria, now Wales. CAMBERED Decks, among ship-builders. The deck or flooring of a ship is said to be cambered, or to lie cambering, when it is higher in the middle of the ship’s length, and droops towards the stem and stern, or the two ends; also when it lies irregular, a circumstance which renders the ship very unfit for war. CAMBERT, a French musician in the seventeenth century, was at first admired for the manner in which he touched the organ, and became superintendent of music to Anne of Austria, the queen-mother. The Abbe Perin associated him in the privilege he obtained from his majesty, of setting up an opera in 1669. Cambert set to music two pastorals, one entitled Pomona, the other Ariadne, which were the first operas given in France. He also wrote a piece entitled The Pains and Pleasures of Love. These pieces pleased the public ; yet, in 1672, Lully obtaining the privilege of the opera, Cambert was obliged to come to England, where he became superintendent of music to king Charles II.; and died there in 1677. CAMBERWELL, a large village in the hundred of Brenton, in Surrey, adjoining to London, whose population amounted in 1811 to 11,309, in 1821 to 17,876, and in 1831 to 28,231. CAMBIO, an Italian word which signifies exchange, commonly used in Provence, and in some other countries, particularly Holland. CAMBIST, a name given in France to those who trade in notes and bills of exchange. The word cambist, though a term of antiquity, is even now a technical word of some use among merchants, traders, and bankers. Some derive it from the Latin cambium, or rather cambio. CAMBLET, or Chamblet, a stuff composed sometimes !of wool, sometimes of silk, and sometimes of hair, especially that of goats, with wool or silk: in some, the warp is silk and wool twisted together, and the woof hair. The true or oriental camblet is made of the pure hair of a sort of goat, frequent about Angora, and which constitutes the riches of that city, all the inhabitants of which are employed in the manufacture and commerce of camblets. In writers of the middle age we find mention made of stuffs composed of camels’ hair, under the denominations of cameletum- and camelinum, whence probably the origin of the term ; but these are represented as strangely coarse, rough, and prickly, and seem to have been chiefly used

CAM 31 among the monks by way of mortification, as the hair shirt Camblets of later times. II Figured Camblets are those of one colour, on which ('1air,'JCK^a‘ are stamped various figures, flowers, foliage, &c. by means of hot irons, which are a kind of moulds, passed, together with the stuff, under a press. Watered Camblets are those which, after weaving, receive a certain preparation with water, and are afterwards passed under a hot press, which gives them a smoothness and lustre. Waved Camblets are those on which waves are impressed, as on tabbies, by means of a calender, under which they are passed and repassed several times. CAMBO, a town of the department of the Lower Pyrenees, in France, on the river Nive, which is thus far navigable. It is celebrated for its mineral springs, one cold, containing iron, and two warm and sulphureous, which are much frequented. The stationary inhabitants amount to 1150. CAMBODIA, Gamboge, Camboja, or Camboya, a country of Asia, occupying the eastern shore of the Gulf of Siam, bounded on the north by Loas, on the east by Cochin-China and Tsiampa, on the west by Siam and the Burman empire, and on the south by the sea. In length it may be estimated at 350 miles, by 150 in average breadth. This is a country very little known to Europeans. The coasts, to which alone they have had access, are so remarkably flat, that at the distance of four or five miles from the shore the water is seldom more than four or five fathoms deep, and no craft except boats can approach within two miles of the shore. The country near the coast is overgrown with wood. Farther inward it is mountainous, intersected by deep ravines ; and the middle portion, through which the great river Camboja passes, is described as a fine plain, though it is almost wholly unknown. The soil is fertile, resembling that of Ava, Siam, and the neighbouring countries. It produces rice, legumes, and fruits, as well as many medicinal plants. Here is produced the colouring matter named gamboge, which derives its name from this kingdom, being the concrete resinous juice of certain trees found here. Here are also the sandal and the eagle wood trees, and many other valuable vegetable products. There is a vegetable poison, in which, if a weapon is dipped, it is sure to inflict a mortal wound. In the deep forests with which the country is covered the wild animals of the country find abundant shelter. They consist chiefly of elephants, lions, tigers, &c. and are eagerly hunted by the natives. Cattle are also plentiful. The chief river, which runs southward through the centre of the country from Thibet, where it has its rise, is Camboja or May Kaung, or more properly Me Kon, and is navigable for boats along the greater part of its course, which is through the province of Yunan in China. It is navigable for ships forty miles from the sea, where the city of Saigong is situated. It is about two miles broad, and very deep, and falls into the Chinese Sea by several mouths. Some sand banks obstruct its entrance; but they may be easily avoided. The chief town is Lowaick, named Cambodia by Europeans ; and there are just three others that deserve the name, whose position, however, is very indistinctly known to Europeans. The foreign commerce of the country is extremely limited ; and the inhabitants seldom leave their country for commercial objects. The Chinese and Portuguese from Macao import to a small extent silk goods, china and lackered ware, tea, sweetmeats, tin, and tutenague ; while the exports are betel-nut, various kinds of wood, mother of pearl, shells, peltry, silk, and coarse cloths. The mountains yield various sorts of precious stones, also gold of great beauty, and in considerable quantities. The Portuguese were formerly rivals with the Dutch for

32 CAM Cambong the trade of this country. In the year 1670 the English II t attempted some traffic with the inhabitants, but to little ( advantage. The country is inhabited by a mixture of Cochin-Chinese, Malays, Japanese, and Portuguese. The men are generally handsome, with a dark complexion and long hair; the women are likewise handsome, but rather licentious in their manners. The inhabitants of the interior are very little known; they seem to resemble the barbarous aborigines found all over India, and to follow neither the religion of Mahommed nor Buddha, but some idolatrous superstition of their own. The city of Cambodia is 150 or 170 miles from the sea; it is now a mean place, with an indifferent palace of wood. Long. 104. 35. E. Lat. 13. N. CAMBONG, or Cambing, an island in the Eastern Seas, about thirty miles in circumference. It lies off the north coast of Trinon. Lat. 8. to 9. N. CAMBHAY, an arrondissement of the department of the North, in France, extending over 355 square miles, divided into seven cantons, and containing 117 communes, with 112,994 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is a fortified city on the river Scheldt, which divides it into two parts. It is well but irregularly built, is the seat of a bishop, and contains eleven churches, 2990 houses, and 15,608 inhabitants. It has long been celebrated for those linens of delicate texture which have obtained in England the name of the city. Fine lawns and thread gauzes are manufactured in Cambray; besides which there are produced fine threads, inferior linen, carpets, soap, snuff, and copper utensils; and there are several large bleaching establishments. From 1815 to 1818 it was the head quarters of the army of occupation under the command of the Duke of Wellington. It is in longitude 3. 8. 27. E. and latitude 50. 10. 37. N. CAMBREMER, a town in the department of Calvados, in France, with 165 houses and 1056 inhabitants. CAMBRIA, a name for the principality of Wales. CAMBRIC, in commerce, a species of linen made of flax, very fine and white; the name of which was originally derived from the city of Cambray, where they were first manufactured. CAMBRIDGE, the capital of the English county of the same name, stands on the river Cam, which is navigable to the Ouse, and communicates with the sea through the port of Lynn. It is situated on an extensive and not very fertile plain, and is considered a very salubrious situation. Neither the streets nor private buildings have any thing remarkable, but the general appearance of the town has been much improved by the recent additions and embellishments which the colleges have received. The town is governed by a mayor, thirteen aldermen, and twenty-four common-council men. The chief object of attention is its university, which is a corporation of itself, and returns in that capacity two members to the House of Commons, who are chosen by such students as have taken the degree of master of arts, and from whom no landed qualification is required on taking their seat in that assembly. The public library, the senate-house, the printing press, the observatory, and some other establishments, belong to this corporation ; and it also possesses power to adopt rules and make regulations for the government of the whole body, as well as to choose the several professors. Each college is also a separate corporate body, holding the buildings and libraries, and possessing large funds in money, in land, in houses, and in advowsons, by which the expenses of the several establishments are defrayed, and stipends allowed to the holders of fellowships. The constitutions of these colleges are various, as well as the amount of their property, and the mode in which the scholars, fellows, and masters are appointed and remune-

C A M rated. Our limits do not admit our describing the wealth, Cambridi the inducements to study, or the mode of examination prac- ' tised in the several colleges; but we may enumerate the names of each of them, and the number of scholarships, fellowships, and advowsons. ls£, St Peter’s was founded in 1257, contains a master, tutors, and bursars, like the others, to be noticed in succession, with fourteen fellowships, forty-eight scholarships, and eleven advowsons. 2d, Clare Hall was founded in 1326; it has ten senior and seven junior fellowships, thirty-eight scholarships, and fifteen advowsons. 3d, Pembroke Hall has sixteen fellowships, several scholarships under ten pounds, and seven above thirty pounds a year, and ten advowsons. 4tfA, Gonville and Caius, founded in 1348, has twenty-nine fellowships, seventy-six scholarships, and sixteen advowsons. 5th, Trinity Hall, founded in 1350, has twelve fellowships, fourteen scholarships, and seven advowsons. 6th, Benet College, which has twelve fellowships, fifty-two scholarships, and eleven advowsons. 7th, King’s College, founded in 1441, consists of seventy fellows and scholars supplied in regular succession from Eton College: it possesses twenty-six advowsons. 8th, Queen’s College, founded in 1448, has twenty fellowships, several small scholarships, and ten advowsons. 9th, Catherine Hall, founded in 1475, has fourteen fellowships, thirty scholarships, and three advowsons. 10th, Jesus College, founded in 1496, enjoys sixteen fellowships, forty-six scholarships, and fifteen advowsons. Wth, Christ College, founded in 1505 : the fellowships are fifteen in number, and the scholarships fiftytwo; the advowsons are eight. \2th, St John’s College, founded in 1511 : the fellowships are fifty-one, the scholarships a hundred and fourteen, and the advowsons fortythree. 13^, Magdalen College, founded in 1519, which enjoys seventeen fellowships, forty-one scholarships, and five advowsons. 14^, Trinity College, founded in 1546 : it has sixty fellowships, sixty-nine scholarships, and fifty-eight advowsons. 15^A, Emanuel College, founded in 1584, has thirteen fellowships, thirty-six scholarships, and fourteen advowsons. 16^4, Sidney Sussex College: this has twelve fellowships, forty-eight scholarships, and six advowsons. 17^4, Downing College, founded in 1800, has sixteen fellowships, six scholarships, and two advowsons. These seventeen foundations have each their separate chapel, library, and hall, with apartments for the members of the college. They have also college tutors to superintend the morals and tuition of the students, and to maintain the due discipline. There are in all of them private tutors, of which benefit the more aspiring pupils commonly avail themselves. In each house there are prizes distributed corresponding to the rank which the students attain at the examinations. As the increase of the value of land has augmented the funds of these colleges, though some of the result of their economy has been applied to the'purchase of advowsons, other parts have been liberally made use of to enlarge the accommodation for the pupils, or to beautify and adorn the edifices. This has recently been the case in several of the corporations, to the great improvement of the town. There has been a gradual increase in the number of students, who in a few years have risen from 1500 to upwards of 3000; many of whom are now under the necessity of procuring lodging in the town, though they attend at meals and at daily worship in the colleges to which they belong. It is impossible to reduce into a narrow compass the list of interesting objects in this university; but Trinity College, King’s with its wonderful chapel, the senate house, and the new part of St John’s, are all objects exciting great admiration. The number of eminent men produced from this university may be deemed the most convincing proof of the value of the system of education that

CAM lambridge is pursued. The inhabitants of Cambridge amounted in II 1811 to 11,108, in 1821 to 14,142, and in 1831 to 20,917, ambridge-inciucjing tiie university. (See Universities.) Cambridge, a post town of the United States, Middlesex county, situated on the north side of Charles River, three miles west-north-west of Boston. This town possesses a university, in many respects the first institution of the kind in America. In 1820 the population amounted to 3295. CAMBRIDGESHIRE is divided into two parts by the river Ouse. Its most northerly division, which is principally composed of the Isle of Ely, is bounded by rivers and their communicating branches. The limits thus formed are so intermixed as with difficulty to be traced. The southern half has an indented and undistinguished boundary-line on the adjacent counties. The form of Cambridgeshire bears some resemblance to that of the human ear, the county of Huntingdon cutting deeply into its western side by a circular projection. The number of acres assigned to it by Dr Beeke is 530,000; but from the agricultural report, and in the returns of the poor-rates in 1803, the number is stated to be 443,300 and 439,040 respectively. When the original agricultural report was made in 1794 by Mr Vancouver, he calculated that, of the 443,000 acres, there were 132,000 open field, and 150,000 waste and unimproved fen; but since that time both these-descriptions of land have been very considerably reduced by inclosure and cultivation. The surface of this county presents considerable variety. The northern part, including the Isle of Ely, is chiefly fen land, and perfectly level, intersected with numerous canals and ditches, and abounding with windmills, for the purpose of carrying the water from the lands. This district is naturally a bog, formed by the stagnation of the water from the overflowing rivers. It comprises nearly half of that extensive tract called the Bedford Level, the whole extent of which is 400,000 acres. This great level has been from an early period divided into three parts, the north level, the middle level, and the south level. The largest portion of the middle level, and a considerable part of the south level, are in Cambridgeshire, comprehending the Isle of Ely, and a few parishes to the south-east of the isle. The principal of the drains by means of which this immense fenny district has been in a great measure rendered either rich meadow or arable land, are the Bedford Old and New Rivers, which are navigable in a straight line upwards of twenty miles across the county, from the Great to the Little Ouse. There are some rising grounds in this part of the county, on the most considerable of which the city of Ely stands. Those parts of Cambridgeshire which lie adjacent to Suffolk, Essex, and Hertfordshire, have their surface varied by gently rising hills and downs. The Gogmagog Hills, which begin about four miles to the south-east of Cambridge, and which are one of the terminations of the range of chalk hills that commence in the south-west of England, are the highest in the county; but their height is very inconsiderable. The district which extends from these hills to Newmarket is bleak and thinly inhabited. This district is connected with that vast tract of land which, extending southwards into Essex, and northwards through Suffolk into Norfolk, forms one of the largest plains in the kingdom. The substrata of this county are chalk, chinch, gravel, gault, sand, silt, and peat-earth. The chalk extends through the hilly part of the county from Royston to Newmarket. The chinch, an impure limestone, chiefly abounds in the parishes of Burwell and Iselham. On the east and west sides of the upland division of the county, gaidt, a stiff blue clay, chiefly prevails. The sand enters VOL. IV.

C A M 33 Cambridgeshire from Bedfordshire, in the parish of Gam-Cambridgelingay. In the northern extremity of the county, near shire/ Wisbeach, silt, a fine sea-sand, is found. The peat-earth extends through the whole of the fen-land. The principal rivers are the Ouse, and Granta or Cam. The Ouse enters the county between Fen Drayton and Erith, and thence runs eastward through the fens, till, at some distance above Denny Abbey, it takes a northerly course, and, passing Streatham, Ely, and Littleport, flows into Norfolk. From this river are many cuts, called loads. The Cam enters the county to the west of Gilden Morden, and thence flowing to the east, it receives several rivulets. Near Grantchester its stream is enlarged by the united waters of several rivulets from Essex. After their junction it takes a northerly direction, and having passed Cambridge and several villages, it falls into the Ouse in the parish of Streatham. Besides the numerous canals in the fenny district, principally for the purposes of draining the land, there are the Cambridgeshire Canal, which commences in the Ouse at Harrimere, and terminates at Cambridge. A cut of three miles extends to Reche, and another of three and a half miles to Burwell; and the Wisbeach Canal, which joins the Wisbeach river at the old sluice in the town, opening a communication with Norfolk, Suffolk, and other places. The climate of Cambridgeshire differs considerably in different parts. In the south-east it is cold and bleak; in the fenny district damp and unhealthy, though much less so than formerly ; in the south and south-western districts the climate is mild, agreeable, and healthy. Estates vary much in size. There are many large ones, especially those of the Earl of Hardwicke and the Dukes of Bedford and Rutland. College tenures are numerous. There are some farms of a thousand acres or more, but the general size is from a hundred to five hundred acres. Cambridgeshire is not celebrated as an agricultural county. It may be considered as chiefly arable. Wheat is grown principally in some parts of the fenny district, and in the south and south-western parts of the county. Barley is cultivated in these parts, and in some of the more fertile portions of the south-east district. Immense crops of oats, of good quality, are grown in the fenny district, and also in most other parts of the county. It is supposed that about one fourth of the fen-lands is cropped w ith cole, which is principally sowm to be eaten green by sheep, very little being now' cultivated for the seed. The cultivation of hemp and flax is carried on to a considerable extent in that part of the county which borders on Norfolk, particularly in the parishes of Upwell and Wolney. Saffron has been very little, if at all cultivated, for upwards of forty years. In some parts mustard is a favourite and valuable crop. Sedge is cultivated near Chippenham; but the cultivation of the reed is rapidly decreasing, in consequence of the improvement of the fens. White seed, or fen-hay, is growm abundantly in several places. It increases the milk of cows. Oziers are grown in the Wash, as well as in many parts of the fen, and are a profitable crop in these districts. So great is the value of turf, that the land producing it has been sold at from L.50 to L.80 per acre. At Ely, Soham, Wisbeach, &c. are many large gardens, producing vegetables and common kinds of fruit so abundantly, as to supply not only the neighbouring towns and counties, but even London. Great quantities of strawberries are grown in the vicinity of Ely, and are chiefly conveyed in barges to Lynn, and carried thence to Newcastle and other places in the north of England. There are numerous and large orchards in the same districts as the gardens; and their chief produce consists of apples and cherries. Soham is remarkable for the latter. E

34 CAM Cambridge- That district of the county which by old authors is shire. termed the Dairies, comprehends the parishes of Shengay, Wengy, Whaddon, &c.; but the dairy farms in this district are at present much less considerable than those in the parishes of Chattris, Mepal, Sutton, Cottenham, Soham, Ely, and Streatham. The whole number of cows kept in this district is supposed to be between 9000 and 10,000; in the parish of Cottenham alone about 1500 are usually kept; in Willingham about 1200. These two parishes make the cheese, so much esteemed, which goes by the name of Cottenham cheese; the parish of Soham is also esteemed for good cheese. Little cheese is made in other parts of the county, the rearing of calves and making of butter being the chief dairy management. The butter is sold, rolled up in pieces of a yard long, and about two inches in circumference. This is done for the convenience of the colleges, where it is cut into pieces called parts, and so sent to table. Its quality is excellent. The cows kept on the dairy farms are mostly of the breed of the county. Most of the calves that are suckled are sent to the London market. Immense numbers of sheep are pastured on the heaths and commons with which the south and south-western districts of this county are intersected. The downs in the vicinity of the Gogmagog Hills are also chiefly used as sheep-walks. The principal breeds kept here are the Norfolk and west country; in the fens the most prevalent sort is a cross between the Leicester and Lincoln. The Cambridgeshire farmers think themselves unrivalled in cart-horses, which are of the large black breed. In the fens they are a source of great profit. In Cambridgeshire there is also a peculiar breed of hogs, some of which are so large as to fatten to forty stones, fourteen pounds to the stone, at two years old. From the nature of the northern division of the county, great attention has necessarily been paid to draining; and in some places advantage has been taken of the numerous rivers to irrigate and warp land. The interior drainage of the fens is performed principally by mills. One or two steam-engines have been erected for that purpose, and will probably answer better. There is a large tract of meadow land at Babraham, which has been irrigated from the time of Queen Elizabeth, and is supposed to be one of the oldest instances of this mode of improving land in the kingdom. It was first irrigated by Pallavicino, who was collector of Peter’s Pence at the death of Queen Mary, and who, turning Protestant, applied the money thus obtained to the purchase and irrigation of this estate. The practice, however, though evidently beneficial, has extended very little. Near Denver Sluice, on the Ouse, some land has been warped by letting the muddy water of that river upon it, and then throwing it back by means of a wind-mill. This is by no means a manufacturing county. At Ely there is a pottery for coarse ware ; and at this city, Chatteris, and Cambridge, excellent white bricks are made. Lime and chalk are a source of considerable trade and profit; the lime in the greatest estimation is that which is burnt at Reach. At Cherryhinton, at the foot of the Gogmagog Hills, are great chalk pits, noted for the marine productions they contain, and for the many rare plants growing in their vicinity. Elephants’ grinders, and other animal remains, have been found in a gravel pit near Chesterford, and a small tortoise in flint at Milttm. On the borders of Norfolk a little yarn is spun for the Norwich weavers. Malt is made to a considerable amount in the north-west part of the count}^. There are Several mills for preparing oil from cole and raj>c-secd at Wittlosford, Sawston, &c., and a pretty extensive paper manufactory at the latter place. Near Cambridge is annually held

CAM one of the greatest fairs in England; it is called Stour- Cambridfl bridge or Sturbich Fair, and is under the jurisdiction of s*“re‘ the university. It begins on the 18th September, and lasts a fortnight; it has, however, been declining for many years. A very curious example, and unquestionably one of the oldest in the kingdom, of Saxon architecture, occurs in the remains of the conventual church of Ely. This building is undoubtedly of as early a date as the tenth century, having been erected in the reign of King Edgar. The two transepts of Ely Cathedral afford specimens of the more massive kind of architecture introduced by the Normans. They were built towards the end of the eleventh century. St Sepulchre’s Church at Cambridge affords a curious specimen of that species of architecture which was introduced into this country in imitation of the church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem; it is supposed to be the oldest of this form in England, and to have been built in the reign of Henry I. There are some instances in this county of the pointed arch, enriched with Saxon mouldings ; a style which was the immediate forerunner of the Gothic. Soham Church, the south doorway of St Giles in Cambridge, and the north and south doorways of St Mary’s Church in Ely, are specimens of this species of architecture. One of the most ancient buildings in the county, in which the pointed arch makes its appearance, is the great Tower at the west end of Ely Cathedral, and the south transept adjoining; they were erected between 1174 and 1189. Some traces of Saxon architecture may be observed in this part of the cathedral. The early or simple Gothic may be seen in the vestibule at the west end of Ely Cathedral, in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge, and in the chancels of Foxton, Kennett, and Cherryhinton churches. Of the Gothic architecture of the fifteenth century, especially in the reign of King Henry VII. which was distinguished by the abundance of its rich tracery, the finest and most perfect example is found in the magnificent chapel of King’s College in Cambridge. There are not many remains of antiquity in this county. The most remarkable are the ditches, which formerly extended from the woods on the east side of the county to the fens. The most entire is called the Devil's Ditch, and extends from Wood-ditton or Ditch-town to Reach. Near this latter place it is most perfect, the works consisting of a deep ditch with an elevated vallum, the slope of which measures fifty-two feet on the west and twenty-six on the east side. The whole of the works are about 100 feet in width. The origin and intention of these ditches are not known ; they are certainly very ancient, and were probably formed for the purpose of defence. By returns made to the Board of Agriculture in the year 1804, it appears that the poors’ rates rose, between 1790 and 1803, from 4s. lid. to 5s. 8|d. in the pound; while the expense of maintaining them from Easter 1802 to Easter 1803 amounted to the sum of L.55,954. 14s. lid. In the year ending the 25th of March 1815 the parochial rates in 131 parishes amounted to the sum of L.63,354. 13s. l^d.; forty-four parishes had made no returns. In the year 1377 the number of persons charged in this county to a poll tax, from which the clergy, children, and paupers were exempted, was 27,350; but it seems doubtful whether it was exclusive of the town of Cambridge and city of Ely, in each of which 1722 persons were taxed. If they were taxed separately, the total number in the county would .be 30,794. In the year 1700 there are supposed to hqye been 76,000 inhabitants ; and in the year 1750, T2,000. By the returns made under the act of parliament for ascertaining the population of the kingdom in 1800, there were then 16,451 houses in Cambridgeshire, of whieh 16,139 were inhabited. The

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CAM 35 Camden, total number of inhabitants is stated to be 89,346, of whom culture; and 11,988 in trade, manufactures, and handi- Camden. 44,081 were males, and 45,265 females. Of this total crafts. The following is the result of the population renumber there were 28,045 principally employed in agri- turns for 1811, 1821, and 1831 respectively. HOUSES.

YEARS.

1811 17,232 1821 20,869 1831

OCCUPATIONS.

By how many Families occupied. 21,022 25,603

257 247

PERSONS.

Families chiefly employed in Agriculture.

Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, or Handicraft.

All other Families not comprised in the two preceding classes.

Males.

Females.

Total of Persons.

12,831 15,536

5303 6964

2888 3103

50,756 60,301 72,031

50,353 61,608 71,924

101,109 121,909 143,955

CAMBYSES. See Persia. CAMDEN, William, the great antiquary, was born in London in the year 1551. His father was a native of Lichfield, in Staffordshire, who, settling in London, became a member of the company of paper-stainers, and lived in the Old Bailey. His mother was of the ancient family of Curwen of Workington, in Cumberland. He was educated first at Christ's Hospital, and afterwards at St Paul’s School; from which he was sent, in 1566, to Oxford, and entered servitor of Magdalen College; but being disappointed of a demy’s place, he removed to Broadgate Hall, and, somewhat more than two years afterwards, to Christ Church, where he was supported by his kind friend and patron Dr Thornton. About this time he was a candidate for a fellowship of All-souls College, but lost it by the intrigues of the Popish party. In 1570 he supplicated the regents of the university to be admitted bachelor of arts, but in this also he miscarried. The following year Mr Camden came to London, where he prosecuted his favourite study of antiquity, under the patronage of Dr Goodman, dean of Westminster, by whose interest he was made second master of Westminster School in 1575. From the time of his leaving the university to this period, he took several journeys to different parts of England, with a view to make observations and collect materials for his Britannia, in which he was now deeply engaged. In 1581 he became intimately acquainted with the learned President Brisson, who was then in England, and in 1586 he published the first edition of his Britannia ; a work which, though much enlarged and improved in future editions, was even then esteemed as an honour to its author and the glory of its country. In 1593 he succeeded to the head mastership of Westminster School, on the resignation of Dr Grant. In this office he continued till 1597, when he was promoted to be clarencieux king at arms. In the year 1600 Mr Camden made a tour to the north, as far as Carlisle, accompanied by his friend Mr (afterwards Sir Robert) Cotton. In 1606 he began his correspondence with the celebrated President de Thou, which continued to the death of that faithful historian. In the following year he published his last edition of the Britannia, which is that from which the several English translations have been made; and in 1608 he began to digest his materials for a history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In 1609, after recovering from a dangerous illness, he retired to Chislehurst in Kent, where he continued to spend the summer months

during the remainder of his life. The first part of his annals of the queen did not appear till the year 1615, and he determined that 1the second volume should not appear till after his death. The work was entirely finished in 1617 ; and from that time he was principally employed in collecting more materials for the further improvement of his Britannia. In 1622, being now upwards of seventy, and finding his health decline apace, he determined to lose no time in executing his design of founding a history lecture in the university of Oxford. His deed of gift was accordingly transmitted by his friend Mr Heather to Mr Gregory Wheare, who was by himself appointed his first professor. He died at Chislehurst in 1623, in the sevent}'third year of his age, and was buried with great solemnity in Westminster Abbey, in the south aisle, where a monument of white marble was erected to his memory. Camden was a man of singular modesty and integrity, profoundly learned in the history and antiquities of this kingdom, and a judicious and conscientious historian. He was reverenced and esteemed by the literati of all nations, and will be ever remembered as an honour to the age and country in which he lived. Besides the works already mentioned, he was author of an excellent Greek grammar, and of several tracts in Hearne’s collection. But his great and most useful work, the Britannia, is that upon which his fame is chiefly built. The edition above mentioned, to which he put his last hand, was correctly printed in folio, much augmented, amended where amendment was necessary, and adorned with maps. It was first translated into English, and published in folio at London, in 1611, by the laborious Dr Philemon Holland, a physician of Coventry, who is thought to have consulted our author himself; and therefore great respect has been paid to the additions and explanations that occur therein, on a supposition that they may belong to Camden. But in a later edition of the same translation, published in 1636, the doctor has taken liberties which cannot be either defended or excused. A new translation, made with the utmost fidelity from the last edition of our author’s work, was published in 1695, by Edmund Gibson of Queen’s College, in Oxford, afterwards bishop of London ; in which, besides the addition of notes, and of all that deserved to be taken notice of in Dr Holland’s first edition, which, though thrown out of the text, is preserved at the bottom of the page, there are many other augmentations and improvements, all properly distinguished from the genuine work

1 The reign of Queen Elizabeth was so recent when the first volume of the annals was published, that many of the persons concerned, or their dependents, were still living. It is no wonder, therefore, that the honest historian should offend those whose actions would not bear inquiry. Some of his enemies were clamorous and troublesome, which determined him not to publish the second volume during his file; but, that posterity might be in no danger of disappointment, he deposited one copy in the Cotton Library, and transmitted another to his friend Dupuy at Paris. It was first printed at Leyden in 1623.

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C A M of the author, as they ought to be; and the same judicious method was followed in the next edition of this performw hich that was justly considered the very best of its kind had been hithertoaspublished. Butbook the public was afterwards put in possession of a new translation, and still more improved edition, by that learned and industrious topographer Mr Gough, under whose hands it was enlarged to near double the size of the last of the preceding editions. Camden, a post-town, and capital of Kenshaw district, South Carolina, situated on the east side of the Wateree. It is a pleasant town, regularly laid out, and contains about 1000 inhabitants. Two battles were fought hei’e to the advantage of the British during the revolutionary war. Long. 80. 33. W. Lat. 34. 17. N. CAMEL, in Zoology. See Mammalia. CAMELODUNUM. See Camalodunum. CAMELOPARDALIS, in Zoology. See Mammalia. CAMEO. See Camaieu. CAMERA TEolia, a contrivance for blowing the fire^ for the fusion of ores, without bellows, by means of water falling through a funnel into a close vessel, which sends from it so much air or vapour as continually blows the fire. If there be the space of another vessel for it to expatiate in by the way, it there deposits its humidity, which otherwise might hinder the work. This contrivance was named camera ceolia by Kircher. Camera Lucida, a contrivance of Dr Hook for making the image of any thing appear on the wall of a room during sunshine. Opposite to the wall on which the image is to be received there is an aperture in the window shutter of at least a foot in diameter. The object is placed outside the aperture. The object must be strongly enlightened by a mirror which throws the sun’s rays upon it. Between the object and the wall which is to receive the image place a large convex lens, whose focal distance is sufficiently great to give an image on the wall. In proportion as the lens is placed nearer to the object, the image on the wall will be larger; and when the lens is moved farther from the object, the object will be less. (Phil. Trans. No. xxxviii. p. 741 et seq.} With a good lens, magnified images of objects, such as small gems in basrelief, may be formed on a wall or screen so perfect as to be mistaken for real bas-reliefs. Camera Lucida, an instrument for drawing in perspective; one of the many ingenious inventions of Dr Wollaston. If a piece of plain glass be fixed at an angle of fortyfive degrees with the horizon, and if, at some distance beneath, there be a sheet of paper laid horizontally on a table, a person looking downwards through the glass will see an image of the objects situated before him; and as the glass which reflects the image is also transparent, the paper and pencil can be seen at the same time with the image, so that the outline of the image may be traced on the paper. The image is an inverted one. This is the simplest form of the instrument, and may be constructed extemporaneously by fixing on a stand a plain transparent glass, with its surfaces ground parallel, or a piece of Muscovy glass, at an angle of forty-five degrees with the horizon ; a card with a small hole in it will serve as a sight for keeping the eye steady in one situation whilst the pencil is tracing the image. If there be a plain mirror at an angle of 221 degrees with the horizon, and a piece of plain transparent glass be placed near it, at an angle of 221 degrees with the vertical, the rays from the object will be twice reflected before they reach the eye; and consequently, on looking down through the transparent glass, an erect image is seen, and the pencil may be drawn over the outlines of this image

CAM so as to leave a perspective representation on the paper. Camera This disposition is seen at fig 1, Plate CXLIV., where be Lucid*, is the mirror, ab the transparent plain glass. As the image and pencil are at different distances, they cannot be both seen in the same state of the eye. To remedy this, inconvenience, a convex glass is used, of such focus as to require no more effort than is necessary for seeing the distant objects distinctly. By means of this lens, the image will appear as if it were placed on the surface of the paper. In fig. 1 is a convex glass of twelve inches focus; at e the eye is placed; fghe is the course of the rays proceeding from the object to the eye. Those whose eyes are adapted to seeing near objects alone, will not derive advantage from the use of a convex glass, but will require a concave glass to be placed at f in the course of the rays from the object to the reflecting surface. In fig. 2, ik is a concave glass placed in the above-mentioned situation: it is so disposed as to be turned at pleasure into its place, as the sight of the observer may require. Persons whose sight is nearly perfect may use either the concave glass placed before the reflecting surface, or the convex glass placed between the paper and the eye. In the actual construction of the instrument, a prism is used instead of a mirror and a plain glass. The rays from the object fall upon the surface be of the prism, fig. 3. This surface be is inclined 22L degrees to the horizon. The refractive power of the glass allows none of the rays in this situation to pass out; they are all reflected from the surface be to the surface ab, and from that to the eye. ab makes an angle of 135 degrees with be, and 22^ degrees with the vertical. The eye cannot see the pencil through the prism as it does through a plain glass; therefore, in order that the pencil may be seen, the eye must be so placed that only a part of the pupil may be above the edge of the prism, as at e, fig. 3; and then the reflected image will be seen at the same time with the paper and pencil. There is a small piece of brass perforated with a hole c, and moving on a centre, fig. 2; this serves to keep the eye in one position, as it must be, that the image may be steady, and also to I’egulate the relative quantities of light to be received from the object and from the paper. The instrument,* being near the eye, does not require to be large. The smallest size which can be executed with accuracy is to be preferred, and is such that the lens is only three fourths of an inch in diameter. Fig 4 shows the instrument on its stand, and clamped to a board. The joint by which the prism is attached to the stand is double. The whole instrument packs in a box eight inches by two, and half an inch deep. This instrument serves for drawing objects of all forms, and consequently also for copying lines already drawn on a plain surface. If it is required that the copy shall be of the same size as the original drawing, the distance of the drawing from the prism should be the same as the distance of the paper from the eye-hole. No lens will be necessary in this case, because the image and the paper, being both at the same distance from the eye, coincide without the aid of a glass. In order to have a reduced copy of a drawing, the drawing is to be placed at a distance from the prism greater than the distance of the paper from the eye-hole. If the distance is twice as great, a copy will be obtained in which the lines are of one half the size of the lines in the original, and so in proportion for other distances. A lens is necessary, that the eye may be enabled to see at two different distances ; and, in order that one lens may serve, the distance between the eye-hole and the paper should he variable; to that effect the stand is susceptible of being lengthened or shortened at pleasure.

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CAM Camera The length of the stem is adjusted upon optical prinLucida. ciples. When a distant object is to be delineated, the rayS coming from it, and reflected by the instrument to the eye, are parallel, and it is required that the rays proceeding from the paper to the eye should also be parallel. This is accomplished by interposing a lens between the paper and the eye, with its principal focus on the paper. When the object to be delineated is so near that the rays which come from it to the eye are divergent, then it is required that the rays from the paper should likewise be divergent in the same degree, in order that the paper and the image may both be seen distinctly by the same eye; for this purpose the lens must be placed at a distance from the paper less than the distance of its principal focus. The stem of the instrument is marked at certain distances, to which the conjugate foci are in the several proportions of 2, 3, 4, &c. to 1, so that distinct vision may be obtained in all cases by placing the original drawing more distant. If the convex lens be transposed to the front of the prism, and the proportional distances be reversed, a magnified image of the object will be obtained. This instrument has deservedly come into use. Its advantages, when compared with the camera obscura, are, Is?, That it is small and easily carried about. 2dly, That no lines are distorted, not even those most remote from the centre; whereas, in the camera obscura, the lines which are not near the centre of the field are more or less distorted. 3a7y, In the field of the camera lucida 70 or 80 degrees may be included, whilst the distinct field of the camera obscura does not extend beyond 30 or 35 degrees at most. The specification of Dr Wollaston’s patent for the camera lucida is inserted in the Repertory of Arts, vol. x. 1807, p. 1G2, and his description of the instrument in Nicholson’s Journal, vol. xvii. The camera lucida employed by Captain Hall packs in a small box. When the instrument is to be used the box folds out and forms a small table, which is fixed on the top of a tripod. There is a folding three-legged seat, which packs within the tripod. The tripod, when closed and containing the seat, is only the size of a walking stick. If the camera lucida be fixed at the eye-glass of a telescope, it will reflect to the eye the image of the objects in the field of the telescope, so that a drawing of the image may be made. See Dr Brewrster’s Account of some Philosophical Instruments. A plain reflecting glass, fixed at an angle of 45 degrees wdtli the horizon, and placed so as to receive the rays from the eye-glass of a telescope, will also give an image of the objects in the field, so situated that the image may be traced with a pencil. Varley’s patent graphic telescope is upon this principle. In order that the field may be large, the magnifying power of the telescope should be small. -The inherent qualities of all the instruments for drawing in perspective being closely allied, it will be proper to say something of the principles on which these instruments are formed, and to mention some that are not described in other parts of this work. To make a perspective drawing of an object is to lay down on paper a section of the perspective cone, whose apex is at the eye, and whose base is the object. An experienced draughtsman can draw the figure of this section without the aid of instruments. Others who have not acquired the facility of drawing the image they see, must have recourse either to measurement, or to instruments which bring the image under the pencil. Drawing by measurement is performed by actually measuring the height of the principal parts of the object, and their horizontal distance from the eye; together with

C A M 3/ the distance of the paper from the eye; and from these Camera dimensions the drawing is constructed by the systematic Lucida. rules of perspective. Another mode of obtaining a drawing by measurement is to measure the angles at the eye. Suited to this purpose are theodolites, astronomical quadrants, or other instruments capable of measuring vertical and azimuthal angles at the eye. »The angles to be measured are, the angles of altitude, and the angles of azimuth, between the point of sight and the principal points of the object; and if the tangents of the azimuthal angles be laid down with a radius equal to the distance of the paper from the eye, and the tangents of the angles of altitude with a radius equal to the distance of the paper multiplied by the secant of the azimuth, the situation of the principal points of the drawing will be determined. Or, if the instrument is capable of measuring angles in any plane, the angles between the principal points of the object and the point of sight are to be observed, and the azimuthal angles of these principal points with the point of sight; and the tangents of both are to be laid down on the paper, with a radius equal to the distance of the paper from the eye. But these two modes by measurement' are long, particularly the first. Usually, therefore, the instruments to which recourse is had for facilitating the operation of drawing, are such as give an image or section of the perspective cone on a plain surface, so that the pencil may be drawn over the outline of the image. These instruments may be considered under two heads; the first comprehending those in which the pencil is immediately drawn over the lines of the image; the second those in which the pencil has a motion parallel to that of the point which moves over the lines of the image. Of the first kind are the following. 1. The tracing pane, a very simple and convenient instrument, consisting in a transparent plate of plain ground glass, or of Muscovy glass, placed vertically between the object and the eye; whilst the eye is kept fixed by a sight, the outline of the image is drawn on the glass with Indian ink. 2. Or the upright glass may be divided into small squares by lines crossing each other, and the paper on which the drawing is to be made being similarly divided, the particular intersections on the glass that cover the principal points of the object are observed, and these points are laid down on the corresponding intersections on the paper. 3. The image seen in a plain mirror may also be drawn on its surface with Indian ink. 4. In the camera obscura, different forms of which are described in the Encyclopaedia under the articles Dioptrics and Optics, the image to be drawn is formed at the focus of a lens. 5. In the camera lucida the reflected image is used. In the second division of the instruments which give a section of the perspective cone susceptible of being delineated, the pencil does not move immediately over the . lines of the image, but moves parallel to these lines. 1. There is a rod which can be moved in all directions, consistent with its remaining parallel to itself. If one extremity of this rod be moved in space over the outlines of the image which the eye sees, a pencil at the other extremity wfill necessarily move with a similar motion, and form a drawing of the object on paper. In Sir Christopher Wren’s instrument, of which he has given the description and figure in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. iv., the rod is suspended by strings passing over pullies, and the ends of the strings are fixed to a counterpoise. On a similar principle is Peacock’s instrument, described in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. Ixxv., p. 366, and the instruments treated of in the Stockholm Transactions for the years 1760, 1774, and 1790. A well-constructed instrument on this principle, and for which there is a pa-

38 CAM C A tM Camera tent,1 is to be found now (1831) at Mr Cary’s in the Strand. finished his studies in Germany, he repaired to Italy, Cameri Obscura 2. Ihe pencil may delineate the base of a cone similar and where he obtained the esteem of the learned. At his reII Camera- °PP0Slte to the perspective cone. If the rays from the turn he was courted by several princes, who invited him to Cameron, rius. extreme points of an object cross on the ray from the live with them; but he was too much devoted to books, centre, as they do in passing through a small hole into a and the study of chemistry and botany, to accept their dark room, and if it be supposed that, in the place of one offers. He wrote a Hortus Medicus, and several other of the rays a slender inflexible rod is substituted movable works ; and he died in 1598. on a centre at the hole, when this rod is moved so that CAMERI, a town of Italy, in the province of Novara, its outer extremity goes over the outlines of the external in the kingdom of Sardinia. It is situated between the image, a pencil fixed to its inner extremity will form an Ticinio and Terdoppio, and growls much flax, which afinverted drawing of the object. Of this nature is the op- fords employment to a population of 4500 persons. tigraph of llamsden and Thomas Jones, described in the CAMERINOj one of the delegations into which the Philosophical Magazine, vol. xxviii. 1807, p. 67. The papal dominions in Italy are divided. It is situated beimage of the object is seen in a telescope. There is a tween the delegations of Macerata, Fermo, Perugia, and piece of plain glass near c in the focus of the eye-glass Spoletto, and includes part of the Apennines. It extends of the telescope F, fig. 5. On the centre of this piece of over 407 square miles, or 260,400 English acres, and comglass is a dot; « is a plain mirror, inclined so as to reflect prehends one city, one market-town, and twenty-four vilthe image of the object down into the telescope. This lages, with 31,150 inhabitants, who procure by their indusmirror remains fixed, whilst the telescope is movable on try the best products of the papal states. a universal joint at its object-glass h. Near c is another Camerino, a city, the capital of the delegation of the plain mirror, which reflects the rays to the eye-glass. The same name, in Italy. It stands in a healthy situation, eye being placed at the eye-glass at e, the telescope is to and contains a university, a cathedral, twelve monastebe moved by the handle h, so that the dot in the focus of ries, and seven nunneries, with 7045 inhabitants, who are the eye-glass shall pass over the outlines of the image employed chiefly in spinning silk. Long. 13. 19. E. Lat. seen by the eye, and the pencil at L performing a similar 43. 6. N. motion to that of the dot, and sliding freely in its sheath, C AMERLINGO, according to Du Cange, signified forpresses with its weight on the paper: a drawing of the merly the pope’s or emperor's treasurer. At present caobject is the result. If the stand and slider H be length- merlingo is nowhere used but at Rome, where it denotes ened, an enlarged drawing will be obtained. The instru- the cardinal who governs the ecclesiastical state, and adment packs in a box 14 inches by 6 and 3. ministers justice. It is the most eminent office at the The instrument used for drawing profiles of the face court of Rome, because he who holds it is at the head of consists of a long rod which moves on a joint. One end of the treasury. During a vacation of the papal chair, the the rod is moved over the face, the other end, which ter- cardinal camerlingo publishes edicts, coins money, and exminates in an iron point, describes the profile on paper. ercises every other prerogative of a sovereign prince. He Professor Wallace of Edinburgh has constructed an im- has under him a treasurer-general, auditor-general, and proved drawing instrument, which will be described under twelve prelates called clerks of the chamber. the article Eidograph. It is of the nature of the pentoCAMERON, John, a theologian of great erudition, was graph, and serves for copying and reducing. (b. b.) born at Glasgow about the year 1579. His parents are Camera Ohscura, or Dark Chamber, in Optics, a ma- described as respectable, but their situation in life has not chine or apparatus representing an artificial eye, by which been specified. He received his early education in his the images of external objects, received through a double native city, and after completing the ordinary course of convex glass, are exhibited distinctly, and in their native study, he was employed in teaching the Greek language colours, on a white matter placed within the machine, in in the university. In this employment he continued for the focus of the glass. The first invention of this instru- twelve months, and having then felt the usual desire of ment is ascribed to Baptista Porta. visiting foreign countries, he embarked for France, and The camera obscura affords very diverting spectacles; arrived at Bordeaux in the year 1600. Here he immeboth by exhibiting images perfectly like their objects, diately recommended himself to the favour and friendship each being clothed in its native colours, and by express- of two protestant clergymen, by his agreeable manners, ing, at the same time, all their motions, which no other his frank and ingenuous disposition, his very promising art can^imitate. By means of this instrument, a person talents, and his uncommon skill in the Greek and Latin unacquainted with designing will be able to delineate ob- languages. It is stated by Cappel that he spoke Greek jects with the greatest accuracy and justness, and another with as much fluency and elegance as any other person well versed in painting will find in it many things to per- could speak Latin; and that this rare proficiency excited fect his art. the admiration of Casaubon, with whom he soon afterCAMERARIUS, Joachim, one of the most learned wards became intimately acquainted. One of the pastors writers of his time, was born in 1500, at Bamberg, a city of the church of Bordeaux was his own countryman Gilof Franconia, and obtained great reputation by his writ- bert Primrose, D. D. who was himself a man of learning, ings. He translated into Latin Herodotus, Demosthenes, and the author of several works. Through the recomXenophon, Euclid, Homer, Theocritus, Sophocles, Lucian, mendation of these clergymen, he was appointed a regent Theodoret, Nicephorus, and other Greek writers. He pub- in the newly-founded College of Bergerac, where it was lished a Catalogue of the Bishops of the principal Sees; his province to teach the classical languages; but from Greek Epistles; Accounts of his Journeys, in Latin verse; a this station he was speedily withdrawn by tbe Due de Commentary on Plautus; the Lives of Flelius Eobanus Bouillon, who appointed him a professor of philosophy in Hessus, and Philip Melancthon, &c. He died in 1574. the university of Sedan. In this new department he acCamerarius, Joachim, son of the former, and a learned quired new reputation; and the duke next made him an physician, was born at Nuremberg in 1534. -After having offer of the Greek chair, which however he thought it de1 This patent instrument is the same in principle, and almost identical in form, with an instrument figured and described in an old work on Perspective, Joannis Francisci Niceronis Thaumaturgus Opticus, pars i. Printed at Paris in 1646‘.

39 CAMERON. j Tameron. cent to decline, as he could not accept it without depriv- trines of grace and free-will; the time and place of meet- Cameron, ing were duly arranged, and, according to their agreement, ing a friend of his office. n In the personal history of Cameron we find some indi- the professor repaired, in the neighbourhood of Orleans, * I cations of a restless disposition. Having continued two to the country-house of Jerome Groslot, a protestant genyears at Sedan, he resigned his professorship, and, after tleman of rank and learning, who had taken refuge in visiting Paris, returned to Bordeaux, where he again ex- Scotland after the massacre of St Bartholomew, and had perienced a very kind reception. In the beginning of the there been distinguished by the friendship of Buchanan. year 1604, he was nominated one of the students of divi- Tilenus having arrived five days after Cameron, their connity who were maintained at the expense of the church, ference commenced on the twenty-fourth, and concluded in order to be prepared for its ministry when their ser- on the twenty-eighth of April. An account of this Arnica vices should be required, and who for the period of four Collatio was printed at Leyden in 1621. The theological years were at liberty to prosecute their studies in any pro- faculty of that university was not satisfied with some of testant seminary. During this term of his exhibition, he Cameron’s explanations ; and when Rivet, as dean of the acted as tutor to the two sons of Calignon, chancellor of faculty, communicated to him their dissent, he defended Their orthodoxy was likeNavarre; and one of them is mentioned as having made his opinions in a brief answer. 3 great progress in Greek literature. They spent one year wise defended by Bochart, then a student of divinity, at Paris, and the next two at Geneva, from whence they but who afterwards rose to the highest eminence among removed to Heidelberg, and remained there nearly twelve the learned men of the seventeenth century. In 1620, the progress of the civil troubles in France months. In this university, on the fourth of April 1608, he gave a public proof of his ability by maintaining a se- had nearly dispersed all the students of the university of ries of theses, “ De triplici Dei cum Homine Foedere,” Saumur, and Cameron sought in England a place of rewhich have been printed among his works. During the fuge for himself and his family. For a short time he read same year, he was recalled to Bordeaux, where the death private lectures on divinity in London; and in 1622 the of his friend Renaud had left a vacancy in the protestant king appointed him principal of the university of Glasgow, church ; and he was now appointed the colleague of Dr in the room of Robert Boyd, a learned man who had been of his firm adherPrimrose, with whom he lived on the most cordial terms. removed from his office in consequence 4 The high reputation which he acquired by his talents and ence to the cause of presbytery. His successor appears learning, opened to him a new scene of professional exer- to have been more favourably inclined to episcopacy; nor tion : when Gomarus was removed to Leyden, Cameron is it improbable that this circumstance may have had a was appointed professor of divinity in the university of strong tendency to diminish the cordiality of his reception Saumur, the principal seminary of the French protestants. in his native city. The following passage in Baillie’s He commenced his lectures on the thirteenth of June 1618, epistle dedicatory to Robert Blair, reflects some light on but he was not installed till after an interval of two months. his sentiments respecting the controversies which then He had experienced some opposition from the synod of agitated the church. “ I confesse, after you, to rny exPoitou, under the pretext of his having adopted the opi- ceeding great griefe and losse, were taken away from my nion of Piscator as to the imputed righteousness of Jesus head, and I came to be set at the feet of other masters, Christ; but in the national synod held at Alez in the year especially Mr Cameron and Mr Struthers, my very singu1620, this charge was adjudged to be groundless. The lar friends, and excellent divines as our nation has bred, principal of the college was at this time Dr Duncan, ano- I was gained by them to some parts of conformity, which, ther of his learned countrymen, who were then so nume- if the Lords mercy had not prevented, might have led rous in France.1 Cameron had already published several me, as many my betters, to have run on in all the errours of his works, and his celebrity was in no small degree in- and defections of these bad times: but thanks to his glocreased by his academical lectures. Such indeed was his rious name, who held me by the hand, and stopped me at reputation in the chair, that he was frequently honoured the beginning and first entry of that unlucky course ; who with the attendance of Du Plessis Mornay ; a man distin- before I had put my hand to any subscription, or was enleast ceguished by his rank, his talents, and his zeal in the cause gaged in any promise, or had practised any the remony in my flock, did call me to a retreat.”5 Here he of religion. During the same year, 1620, he was engaged in a formal likewise taught divinity with great reputation, but he redisputation with Daniel Tilenus, a native of Silesia, who signed his office in less than twelve months. Vernevil, a had adopted the theological opinions of Arminius.2 He Frenchman, who soon after the author’s death translated had expressed a wish to discuss with Cameron the doc- one of his tracts into English, has given the subsequent 1 Mark Duncan, M. D. principal of the college, was at the same time professor of metaphysics and mathematics, and a practising physician. We learn from an incidental notice of Scaliger that he was born in the west of Scotland. [Prima ScaUgerana, p. 33.) He is the author of a treatise on logic, which is mentioned with high approbation by Burgersdicius in the preface to his InstUutioncs Logic w. The first edition is entitled u Institutionis Logicse libri quinque.” Salmurii, 1GT2, 8vo. The third edition bears this title: “ Institutionis Logicse libri quinque, in usum Academise Salmuriensis tertium editi, ut erant ab auctore recogniti.” Salmurii, 1643, 8vo. Prefixed is a Latin poem by his son Mark Duncan, who was afterwards well known by the name of M. de Cerizante. Tomasini has classed the father among the distinguished literary characters of the age. (Parnassus Euganeus, p. 8.) Menage mentions a French book on the Devils of Loudun, written by Duncan, a celebrated physician of Saumur. (Menagiana, tonn ii. p. 254.) The book to which he alludes is apparently an anonymous and very rare tract, published under the following title : “ Discovrs de la Possession des lleligieuses Vrsulines de Lodun.” 1634, 8vo. This tract, which consists of sixty-four pages, is written with talent and dexterity. The conclusion at which the author arrives is such as might be expected from a man of sense and discernment; but at that period, the management of a negative argument in any similar case required no small degree of caution. It appears from different passages of the work that Duncan, along with other physicians, had attended the sisters v'ho were supposed to be possessed with devils. “ La premiere fois que ie fus present aux exorcism,es, Monsieur de Poictiers et I’exorciste ayans adiure le diable Gresil, qu’on disoit estre dans le corps de la Mere Superieure, de dire le nom du Sieur Duncan, medicin de Saumur, la dicte Superieure auec son2 Gresil se trompa deux Ms.” P. 28. 3 Cameronis Opera, p. 710. 4 See Dr M‘Crie’s life of Melville, vol. ii. p. 444. Middleton’s Appendix to the History of the Church of Scotland, p. 22. Loud. 1077, fob Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. i. 296. Edffib. IggL 4t better qualified or enlitical misunderstanding with Lord Castlereagh led to a titled to occupy the highest official situation which they duel, in which Canning was wounded. Both secretaries had it in their power to bestow, induced them ultimately resigned, and the consequence was a dissolution of the to confer upon him the appointment of governor-general ministry. >,, >■ fddsbirmo’loril beyohrms of India. But just as he was preparing to quit England, During the two years which followed this event, Can- the Marquis of Londonderry died; and a vacancy having ning seldom appeared in the stormy arena of debate. thus been created in the cabinet, Canning was invited by Two speeches, however, on the resumption of cash pay- his sovereign to resume the situation of .secretary for foments by the bank of England, belong to this period, but reign affairs. He accepted the offer, and though second are numbered amongst his least successful exertions. In in office, in public opinion and in real efficiency he was the beginning of 1812 he advocated the claims of the Ca- considered as the first* This took place- in 1822. During the remainder of Canning’s life his history betholics to civil power, which he invariably supported, not as an abstract question of right, but as a matter of expe- comes so closely interwoven with that of his country, diency. On the assassination of Mr Percival, overtures that a minute detail is unnecessary. He .infused into the were made to him to accept a place in the cabinet; but counsels of the cabinet a degree of liberality whieffi for his favourite measure of Catholic emancipation forming a long period, had not characterized them* The spell of no part of their arrangements, he declined taking office. the holy alliance it was his studious endeavour to break; In this year he was chosen as representative for Liver- and without altogether alienating the continental powers pool, winch also returned him to other three successive from Britain,' he aimed at placing her in a situation parliaments. In 1814 he accepted the situation of am- where,.untrammelled, she might exercise her own free will. bassador to Lisbon, and continued there till 1816, when It was his desire that his country should occupy a neuhe returned, and soon afterwards joined the ministry tral station, and assume the character of mediator, not as president of the board of control. During the last only between conflicting kingdoms, but between the hostwo years great events had taken place, in bringing tile factions .of individual nations. He strongly counteabout which Canning had no inconsiderable share. “ If nanced, both in theory and practice, that amelioration in there was any part of his political life/’ he declared on regard to commerce, navigation, and manufactures, which one occasion, “ in which he gloried, it was, that in the the force of circumstances and the progress of information face of every difficulty, discouragement, and prophecy of had rendered imperative. In June 1824 the cabinet deterfailure, his had been the hand which had committed mined on recognizing the independence of Mexico, ColomEngland in an alliance with Spain.” “ Never,” said he bia, and Buenos Ayres. This measure was principally on another occasion, “ ought we to relinquish our hold brought about by the exertions of Canning, and in one of of the Peninsula. The ruler of France has one grand ob- his speeches he claims the merit of it. In answer to the ject to which he stands pledged^—the establishment of his argument that ministers had sanctioned the attack on Pordominion there. If he fail in this, his defeat will be most tugal, by having permitted the occupation of Spain by signal.” The result realized his prediction. By British France, he said, “ Was it necessary that we should blockpolicy and valour, which he animated and encouraged, ade Cadiz? No. I looked another way. I resolved that the tide of military despotism which had overflowed the if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the InContinent was repelled beyond the Pyrenees, and the dies. I called the new world into existence to redress ancient landmarks of nations re-appeared above the sub- the balance of the old.” In the autumn of 1826 he went to Paris, and was received with great distinction. The siding wave. As a member of the cabinet from 1816 till 1820, Can- treaty with France and Russia respecting Greece, and ning was a strenuous supporter of its measures. The ce- the events at Navarino which followed closely after it, lebrated six acts called forth all the resources of his elo- throw light upon the object and intent of his visit. His quence to prove their necessity, and to lessen the abhor- highest powers were also called forth on the occasion of rence with which a large proportion of the community con- the aggression of Spain upon Portugal. He warmly maintemplated them. The manner in which he treated the tained the necessity of England’s interference upon the case of one Ogden, who was incarcerated for sedition un- occasion ; and the demonstrations which were made proder the suspension of the habeas corpus act, was aggra- duced the desired results. These are the three measures vated by opponents into a serious crime, and in any view on which the fame of Canning, for liberal policy, princievinced a reckless and unfeeling levity, which it is easy to pally rests; In the beginning of 1827, at the funeral of the Duke of palliate but impossible to justify. On the demise of George III. in 1820, parliament was York, he caught a severe cold, from the effects of which dissolved, and Canning, at the next election, was for the he never altogether recovered. Shortly after this the Earl fourth time returned for Liverpool. On this occasion he of Liverpool, then prime minister, was seized with paraput forth all his strength in vindication of the proceedings lysis; and though he rallied afterwards, he was politically of ministers. During his speech he also took an opportu- dead from the moment he was struck. Canning was ultinity of expressing his unmeasured hostility to all parlia- mately appointed first lord of the treasury. Considerable mentary reform, which he afterwards reiterated in parlia- opposition followed this appointment, and six members ment in 1822, in one of his most finished orations. On the of the former cabinet resigned. The new premier, howreturn of Queen Caroline to share the throne of her hus- ever, struggled manfully against this rather unexpected band, Canning, who had formerly been on terms of great opposition, and with great celerity completed the com-

CAN 84 Canning plement of the cabinet. But the harassing contest which he had to maintain against a virulent opposition visibly II Cannon. affected his health. Towards the latter end of July 1827 he was invited to the seat of the Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick, in hopes that the change of air might renovate his constitution; and he did recover so far as to be able again to transact business in Downing Street; but his malady, which was an inflammation of the kidneys, returned, and he expired on the 8th of August, at the age of fifty-seven. His remains were interred in Westminster Abbey, near to those of his great preceptor Pitt, on the 16th of the same month. The funeral, though private, was attended by the Duke of Clarence, now William IV., and a number of noble and other friends. The death of Canning was a circumstance rarely paralleled in interest amongst civilized nations. In his foreign policy he had identified himself with the march of independence. From Lima to Athens the effects of his friendly interposition had been felt, and a sorrow corresponding to the benefits he had conferred was expressed when he fell. He was cut oft’ in the midst of designs of high enterprise, and before all his plans were completed; and thus his system, and much of his fame, was left at the mercy of his successors. The great events which have taken place since his death have also tended in some measure to eclipse his popularity. His accomplishments as an orator were of the highest order. His form was commanding, and his features handsome and impressive. His voice was richly toned and highly musical, and his attitudes were elegant and striking. His delivery was manly, and for the most part he was in complete possession of himself. These qualities and accomplishments set off to double advantage the more exalted gifts of intellect with which he was so richly endowed. His diction was splendid, his reasoning acute and refined. He exercised a sovereign command over language, and it flowed from him with classic elegance and ease. His style, strictly speaking, was not ornate. Wit was an ingredient with which he frequently seasoned his oratory, thereby imparting to it a high relish. The vein wras peculiarly his own ; it was lively and playful, and calculated more to ridicule than to lacerate. His poetical powers may be ranked among his elegant accomplishments ; and, for the most part, the productions which resulted from them are the least worthy of his fame—not that they want the requisite talent, but that they are in general disfigured by scurrility and invective. “ He was,” says Sir James Mackintosh, “ a man of fine and brilliant genius, of warm affections, of high and generous spirit; a statesman who at home converted most of his opponents into warm supporters, who abroad was the sole hope and trust of all who sought an orderly and legal liberty, and who was cut off in the midst of vigorous and splendid measures, which, if executed by himself, or with his own spirit, promised to place his name in the first class of rulers, among the founders of lasting peace, and the guardians of human improvement.” CANNON, a military engine for throwing balls, &c. by the help of Gunpowder. The invention of brass cannon is by Laney ascribed to J. Owen. He says that they were first known in England in the year 1535; but he yet acknowledges that, in 1316, there were four pieces of cannon in the English army at the battle of Cressy, and that these were the first that were known in France. And Mezeray relates, that by means of five or six pieces of cannon, King Edward struck terror into the French army, it being the first time they had seen any of these thundering machines; though others affirm that cannon were known also in France at the same time, but that the French king, in his hurry to attack the English, and in confidence of victory, left all his cannon be-

CAN hind him as useless encumbrances. The Germans carry Cannon, the invention farther back, and attribute it to Albertus Magnus, a Dominican monk, about the year 1250. Vossius rejects all these opinions, and finds cannon in China almost 1700 years ago. According to him, they were invented by the Emperor Kitey in the year of Christ 85. See Artillery and Gunnery. Cannon, the Art of Casting. Formerly the mould for casting cannon was of loam, but now it is usually made of dry sand. Loam for making moulds is a composition consisting principally of an earth that contains a good deal of clay. This earth is passed through sieves, and then mixed, whilst wet, with horse dung, cow’s hair, chopped straw, or tow cut short; the loam being mixed up with one of these substances, they are well beaten up together on a wooden board with an iron bar. By this addition the loam becomes susceptible of being dried rapidly without cracking. The most attenuated loam is used for the surface of the mould that is to come in contact with the metal, to the end that the surface may come off smooth. The loam moulders are a particular class of workmen, different from the common sand moulders. The business to which they are bred consists in making, of loam and of dry sand, the moulds for steam-engine cylinders, pipes for conveying water, boilers, guns, and other large articles. Formerly on a tapering wooden spindle, entwined with Old mestraw ropes, a model was made of loam, copied exactly thod of from the pattern gun. This model was painted over with a coat of wood ashes mixed with water. By means of|noul(js> this coat no adhesion took place between the convex model and the loam which was afterwards applied. Over this coat of ashes successive coats of loam were applied, each being dried by fire before the next was laid on ; and the whole was bound externally with longitudinal iron bars, and with hoops transversely. Over this carcass of iron a coat of plaster of Paris was applied. This was dried, and then the spindle and its envelope of straw was taken out. The interior convex model being thus deprived of its core and support, fell to pieces and was picked out; and then a hollow mould of the gun remained. In this way the mould for the body of the piece was formed ; the moulds for the breech and head were made separately; and these three parts were joined together so as to form a complete mould. This method of moulding guns required the construction of a new convex model for every gun that was moulded; and it was used in the French government founderies of Douai, Ruelle near Paris, and Strasburg, in 1794. The following method of constructing the loam-mould Another is an improvement on that just mentioned. A model of method, wood, or, to prevent change of form by moisture, a model of brass or pewter, is made and formed on the turning lathe, with its exterior surface exactly resembling that of the gun, with its head and the square piece at the cascabel; if the model is of metal, it is made hollow for the sake of lightness. This model is laid with its longitudinal axis horizonal, and one half immersed in a bed of sand. Upon that part of the model which projects above the sand successive coats of loam are applied and pressed on the model. When the first layer is dried by fire, a second layer is applied and dried, and so on till the model is covered with a coat of loam four or five inches thick. Over this an iron carcass is applied, and over the carcass anotiier coat of loam. The mould with the model in it is now turned, so that the half already covered with loam shall be lowermost. The plain surface of the loam which had been in contact with the sand is painted over with a coat of blacking, composed of finely powdered charcoal mixed with clayed water; this prevents the adhesion of the flat surface with the loam that is to be laid on it. A layer of

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CAN nnon. loam is applied upon the naked half of the model. This is dried, and several more layers are applied successively. A carcass is put over the loam corresponding to the carcass of the first half, so that these two carcasses can be bound together with bolts and wedge-formed keys, with screw-bolts and nuts, or tied with iron-wire. When the loam is dry, the upper half of the mould is lifted off, the model is taken out, and the interior surfaces of both parts of the mould are painted over with blacking; this prevents the loam from being melted, and from adhering to the hot metal. The two halves of the mould are then put together, and the carcasses are firmly connected by their bolts ; the whole is thoroughly dried by fire. When dried, the mould is placed vertically in the pit of the casting house, with the breech lowermost; sand is beat round it for support, and the metal is poured in at the top of the head. This method was practised in the Arsenal of Paris in 1794. I r sand The most approved method of constructing the mould n .tiding. 0f a gun is in dry sand, and this is the method now practised in Britain. Guns cast in loam do not come from the mould with a surface so correctly resembling that of the model as those cast in dry sand; and in order to render the surface correct, and to remedy defects, it was always necessary to subject them to the process of turning. In guns carefully cast in dry sand, the process of turning might be dispensed with ; the gun would then be strengthened by the outer skin of metal, which, having cooled more rapidly than the other parts, is the hardest. This outer skin is also less liable to rust than the surface laid bare by turning. The mould of a gun in dry sand, at the same time that it is more accurate, is also sooner made and dried, than a loam-mould. Dry sand moulding is a part of the business of the loam-moulder. The sand for dry sand mouldings is made by mixing a quantity of sharp refractory sand with w^ater in which clay has been diluted. After the mixture is thoroughly made, if a handful is grasped, and on opening the hand the sand retains the form given it, then the consistence of the mixture is good. The sand should have the following qualities :—ls£, It should not be fusible by the heat of melted cast-iron; if it were, it would adhere to the metal, and make the surface of the gun rough. 2dly, It must be sharp, and composed of angular particles; if the particles of the sand were round, it would not hold together on taking out the model. 3t%, It must not contain too much clay, for in that case it would crack in drying, kthly, It must contain a certain proportion of clay, to retain the form that the model impresses on it. 'll;model. For dry sand moulding, a pattern of wood may be used, turned exactly to the form of the gun ; or, to avoid expansion from humidity, the model, or pattern as it is termed in the founderies, may be of metal. Brass or pewter are preferable to iron for making patterns, as a smooth surface may be more easily given them, so that they may leave a correct impression, and may come cut well from the sand. The metallic pattern is hollow, that it may be lighter and more easily handled: it is also in different pieces; and each piece fits into the adjacent piece by a rabbet. The length of each piece of the model should be a very little greater than the given length of the corresponding part of the gun, because the length of the mould is the length of the gun whilst hot, and this is longer than the length of the gun when it comes to the temperature of the atmosphere, at which temperature the dimensions of the guns are given. It has been estimated that some kinds of cast iron contract six hundredths of an inch in a foot in passing from the liquid state to the temperature of the atmosphere. This contraction is not considerable

NON. 85 enough to be taken into consideration in the diameter of Cannon, the pattern. The shrinking of the sand in drying, though not considerable, tends likewise to make the piece shorter, and is another motive for making the pattern a little longer than the dimensions taken from a gun at the usual temperature. The patterns of the trunions are attached to the pattern of the second reinforce by screws, so as to be unscrewed and separated when the pattern is to be lifted out of the sand. The gun-box, in which the dry Gun-boxessand mould is to be formed, is of cast iron, and cast in sand. It consists of several portions ; each of these portions has flanges, by which it is fixed to the others, and the whole, when connected together, form the gun-box. In the flanges are holes through which bolts are passed; the bolts are secured by wedge-formed keys ; thus the different parts of the box are firmly held together. The two portions of the gun-box which contain the breech-ring and cascabel are single, not being divided longitudinally. Each of the other five transverse portions is divided longitudinally into two. A handle is fixed to each portion of the box, for the purpose of moving it. The upper transverse portion AA contains the gun-head. In each of the two portions BB, which contain the second reinforce, there is a lateral projection for the trunnions. The figure represents the gun-box with the breech lowermost, in the position in which it is placed when the metal is poured in. To make the mould, the pattern of the breech is first Forming placed on a board, and the corresponding portion of the die mould, gun-box is put over it, and sand is rammed between the pattern and the box. The flat exposed surface of the sand is painted over with blacking, which consists of charcoal and clayed water, that there may be no adhesion with the sand of the next portion of the mould. The pattern of the first reinforce is now fitted into the pattern of the breech, and the corresponding portions of the first reinforce box adjusted on the flange of the breech box. Sand is well rammed, in small quantities at a time, between the pattern and the box; and the upper flat surface of the sand is painted over with blacking. The mould is completed by adding the remaining pieces of the model and of the box, one above another, ramming the sand, and painting the transverse surface of the sand at the top of each division of the box with blacking. The sand must be strongly and equably rammed, that every part of its surface may be able to resist the pressure of the liquid metal. Three little wedges are interposed between the two adjacent transverse portions of the box, that the sand may project a little, so that after it is dry it may be flush with the box ; if this were not done, there would be an interval between the adjacent surfaces of the sand, through which the metal would pass and form a fin. When every part is moulded, the box is taken to pieces, Drying and the parts of the pattern are carefully taken out ofr the stoves, sand, for which purpose they are first struck with a w ooden mallet. Each part of the mould is then carried separately to the stove to dry. The stove is a room twelve or' fifteen feet square, with large iron doors on one side; the

C A N. N O N. 86 Cannon, fire is made in a large conical grate placed on the middle heat, till the sand is vitrified, which is known to have taken Cannon of the floor ; the smoke issues by an aperture in the brick place by touching the surface of the sand with an iron ceiling. The heat in this stove is considerable, but it must ringard. The brick door is then lifted up, and the pig-iron not be so great as to make the boxes red hot; for then, by is laid on the bed of sand. The heat should be applied Fusion the expansion of the iron, the mould would be injured; so as to produce a speedy fusion ; for if the iron is long ex- 1should bo the moulds take about fifteen hours to dry ip this situation. posed to heat before melting, a portion of its carbonaceous ’^When the moulds are taken out of the stove, their inte- matter is burnt, and it passes from the state of gray cast rior surface is painted over with a coat of blacking* that iron to that of white. In situations where pit-coal cannot there may be no adhesion between the mould and the be had, wood may be used in the air-furnace; but the heat given by wood is not so great as that produced by pit-coal. metal. Bte Putting to- The pieces of the gun-box containing the mould are To obtain the utmost heat that the wood is capable of afgether the then taken to the pit, and being carefully placed the one fording, it should be well dried, cut into small logs, and mould. Up0n ^ ot]ier by t{ie Crane, they are put together, and the logs should be placed with their end upon the grate. The pig-iron melted by the flame playing on it, flows secured by their bolts. 1 he mould is placed with the breech undermost; the axis of the mould is made perpen- down into a cavity, L, which has a hole, T, opening outdicular to the horizon by a plumb-line, that the weight of wardly, and stopped with clay. When the hole is forced melted metal may press equably, and not more on one side open hy a workman, the metal issues and is conveyed by If of the mould than on another. It is not necessary that a gutter formed of sand to the gun-mould, into which the sand should be rammed round the mould, the box being melted metal falls through the open end of the head. The strong, and its parts firmly bound together, so as to re- sand forming the gutter should be in a proper state of quire no additional support. The mould is now in a posi- moisture. If it is too dry, some pieces of it will be carried tion for the metal to flow into it through its open end, away by the metal. Across the gutter is a dam composwhich is the extremity of the head. Whether the gun is ed of an iron plate luted, and dipping a little below the to be of cast iron or brass, the construction qf the mould surface of the metal to retain the scorise. This dam is is the same. p .0in rjgiuf jb jsniniaJnojj (bdhifi)dh driven down to stop the current of metal when the mould Air-furThe pig-iron from which the gun is to be made is melt- is full. The metal is also skimmed, as it passes along, by a imee. e(j ‘m a furnaCe, called an air-furnace in the iron founde- skimmer, composed of a rod of iron terminated by a flat ries, and termed by some authors a reyerberatory furnace. semi-elliptical piece luted and made red hot. It is sometimes The flame of pit-coal is carried by a current of air so as the practice to plunge a piece of green wood for a short to play upon the pig-iron. The stack ol the chimney is time into the head whilst liquid. This is with a view to forty feet high. By the pressure of the unrarefied exter- prevent honeycombs, and its action may be to metallize nal air on the lower part of the rarefied columa of air in any oxidated particles of the metal, and that the vapour the furnace and chimney, the current of air through the from the gi’een wood, rising to the surface of the metal, furnace is produced. The grate G is larger than any other may carry with it small air bubbles, or other extraneous transverse section of the furnace. (See figure next column.) bodies that would, if they remained, occasion cavities in The furnace has three openings, one, C, for introducing the the metal. The figure is a transverse section of the air-furnace. C Explana. coals; the second, P, which has a sliding brick door, with ^,on of 111 a counterpoise, serves for introducing the pig-iron. The is the opening through which the coals are introduced. P, tlsure the opening at which the pig-iron is thrown in. T, the hole ' third, I, is for the purpose of stirring the metal, and taking out the melted iron for small castings by iron ladles coat- through which the metal is let out. The metal flows into ed with clay, and made red hot. This third opening has the casting-house. O, the floor of the casting-house. In a door of fire-brick; the joints between the door and the this floor is the pit in which the moulds of large goods are door-frame are luted. In the middle of the door is a hole, sunk, that the metal may flow down into them. I, the door, through which the state of the melted metal may be seen. with a hole in it, for seeing the state of the melted metal. There is likewise a smaller opening, I, for letting out the melted metal. , The furnace and stack are of brick. The interior of the furnace is a coating of fire-brick, nine inches thick, detached and separate from the outer coat and the other parts of the building, in order that the hegt may not melt the common brick of which the outer parts are composed. The fire-brick is made of refractory clay, which, containing little iron, and little or no calcareous matter, burns white, and sustains a great heat without molting. These bricks are made of Stourbridge clay, or of a light bluish gray stratified clay found in the strata that accompany coal in some of the collieries in Scotland. The clay is 8 first ground, the pieces of ironstone picked out, and then made into bricks. In making the interior coating of the furnace, the bricks must be built with xnoistened fire-clay, and not with lime mortar. The quantity of metal put into the furnace should be equal to the weight of the solid unbored gun with its head, and something roorp in case of need. It requires a large air-furnace to contain metal enough for one large gun. Quality of The pig-iron for guns should be gray, that kind having the iron. most tenacity; white pig-iron is too brittle, and so hard Charm™h that the head cannot be cut off, nor the gun bored. ■ •' A bed of sand, N, is made in the furnace, on which the pig-iron is to be laid. The furnace is heated to a white nace.

C A N N 0: N. 87 r non. leading to A, the ash-pit. N, bottom of the furnace, lined ly are soft and malleable; when combined they form a Cannon J with sand. H, chimney; the height of the stack is forty composition that is bdrd and brittle ; and these two qualifeet from the surface of the ground. The stack is strength- ties are increased bp augmenting the relative quantity of I! ened in different places by iron bars, X. F is the mass tin. Diffieffexrt fffdportions have been employed for guns; of building which forms the foundation built below the sur- ted parts, by Weight, of copper, and one of tin, is aproporface of the ground to support the weight of the furnace tidn that is found to give the requisite hardness, and not and stack. R, the surface of the ground out of doors. C too much, nor too great brittleness. The copper is first melted; and the tin is added. If the tin were melted first, P N L H is the course that the flame takes. a n._ It is better to cast the guns from the air-furnace than and thd' copperr added, much of the tin would be oxidated a [prefefrom the blast-furnace ; for in the blast-furnace, where the before the combination took place ; the metal, during the ilt for ironstone is smelted, the quality of the metal is uncertain, process, is stirred with a rod of green wood. BeH-feetkl is a combination of copper and tin in other wp and it may vary from one cast to another, by causes either unknown, or not under the control of the iron-master. On proportions. It is made hard by means of tin, in order the other hand, in the air-furnace, pig-iron of a quality that it may be sonorods. It contains twenty-five per cent, proper for making guns is put in, and the quality of the of tin, and is too brittle and too hard for making guns. In the year 1794 the revolutionary government of France obiron is not materially altered by the process of melting. '1 head. The head of the gun is like the jet (gate or geet of the tained gun-metal by depriving bell-metal of a part of its workmen) of any other casting. Whilst the whole is tin. Bell-metal was heated with the contact of air, and liquid, the head is a column of liquid metal that acts by stirred to oxidate the tin; the bell-metal was thus reduits height, exerting pressure on the metal that forms the ced to the state of a coarse powder; this powder was thrown body of the gun. The metal subjected to this pressure into another quantity of bell-metal in fusion ; the metallic whilst liquid is less subject to porosity when cooled. The and oxidated copper in the powder melted, and was mixed head also furnishes metal to fill up the cavities that occur vjr'ith the already fused bell-metal; the oxide of tin of the in the piece by the contraction and crystallization of the powder remained on the surface. A melted mass was thus metal whilst it is passing to the solid state. All the obtained, containing a larger proportion of copper than the nou-giq 9J great contractions and crystallizations are thus transfer- bell-metal, and fit for making guns. The mould for brass guns is formed of dry sand, in the red to the surface of the head, which is found to be composed of large cavities, sometimes containing cast iron same way as the mould for cast-iron guns already describcrystallized in a fern-leafed shape. The head also serves ed. The furnace for melting brass for guns is a reverberato receive any impurities that may have escaped the at- tory fbrnace, the metal being exposed to the flame. It tention of those appointed to skim the iron as it flows has no high cbimney like the air-furnace for melting iron, the h$at required10not being so great as that for melting along the gutter. 9uJ ^ymunidD pnB doamui In ten or twelve hours, the piece is sufficiently cool to cast iron. Brass guns are subject to melt at the interior extremity be removed. It is then stripped of the mould, and taken to the boring-mill, to undergo the operations described of the touch-hole, by the heat of quick firing; and the under our article Boring of Cannon. Mortars, howit- melted parts are driven out by the explosion, so as to renzers, and carronades are moulded, cast, and bored in the der the touch-hole too wide. To prevent this, there is sometimes a bush of copper inserted, and in this bush the same way as long guns. The English Board of Ordnance is supplied with iron touch-hole is drilled. The copper being less fusible than guns by contract. The contractors are those iron-master^ the brass, is not melted by the heat of firing the piece. who offer the guns at the lowest price, and the guns are To form the bush, a cylindrical piece of copper is hammercast at their works in the country. The guns are sent ed cold, and made into the form of a male screw. A hole to Woolwich to be examined in respect to their dimen- is then bored, reaching from the surface of the gun into sions, the coincidence of the axis of the bore with that of its bore ; the diameter of this cylindrical hale is equal to the piece, the position of the touch-hole, and to undergo the diameter of the cylinder of copper measured from the a proof by powder. It is also tried whether water can be bottom of the threads of the screw. The piece of copper into the cylindrical hole, and the toiiehforced through the substance of the gun. If any cavities is then screwed 1 ^ond-ain io gnilnoa B ei nnsmui ail called honey-combs be found in the bore, the piece is re- hdfe'*^ dieted The improvements in casting cannon, as in other arts, Progress jected. The proofs are at the risk of the contractors, art who generally examine and prove the guns at their works have been gradual. Formerly cannon were cast with aofthe 0 * casting before sending them to Woolwich. Unserviceable guns core, and this was practised in some founderies in Flanders,canno11 " are taken to the triangle, where a large mass of cast iron even in the year 1794 ; but they are now always cast is let fall upon the gun, from a height of forty or fifty feet. solid, experience having shown that guns cast solid are The gun is thus brokeri into pieces of a size fit for being stronger, and less liable to burst, and the bore is freer from introduced into the air furnace to be re-cast. Some brass honeycombs, and more likely to have the same axis with guns are cast and bored in the foundery of the Board of the piece. The Second of these qualities is still more certainly attained by the practice now in use of making the Ordnance at Woolwichl guns. Cast-iron guns have the advantage of not suffering any gun itself revolve whilst boring; in this way, as long as injurious alteration from the heat,of repeated firing. Brass the boring bar remains unmoved, the axis is right; but guns when fired rapidly in succession droop at the muzzle. if the boring bar lias a conical motion, then the point Cast-iron guns ajlone are used on board British ships; brass of the bit is out of the axis; when the boring bar was guns are now principally used for fietd-piecef. Brass guns, made to revolve, the bore might deviate greatly from the in strict and precise language, might bp called bronze axis. The irtiprovements in the casting of cannon have guns, as the word brass, is most commbhly used to denote kept pace with the improvements in the manufacture of a composition of copper and zinc, whereas, in gun-metal, cast iron. The art of casting iron was known to the ancients, as there is generally little zinc, and often none. Copper alone is too soft, so that the guns that have been made of it appears from a small antique statue of Hercules, of cast were cut and furrowed by the ball in firing. Use is made, iron, dug up at Rome. In China it appears to be practistherefore, of a mixture of copper and tin, this Composi- ed with a dexterity visible in the Chinese specimens of tion being harder than copper. Copper and tin separate- many other arts. In modern Europe it has grown with

88 CAN NON. Pit-coal cannot be employed entire in the blast-furnace; Canno;: Cannon, the general advancement of society, and has latterly attained to a high degree of improvement in this island, the bituminous part would be conglutinated by the heat, ''-—yx where individuals having the command of capital, and the and the furnace would be choked, and the materials would power of making advances for the salaries of workmen and no longer descend gradually as they ought to do. The the construction of buildings, were induced to form large coal is therefore burnt to drive off its bitumen, and it is establishments for the smelting of ironstone, and for the then in a state of cinder, and called coak. It requires a manufacture of cast iron. In France cast iron is little larger mass of coak than of charcoal to smelt ironstone. used; many of the articles which in England are of cast Hence the coak blast-furnaces are large, and the machines iron being there of wrought iron, copper, earthemyare, or employed to blow them are more powerful than the wooden wood. In the Prussian dominions the art of casting sta- spring bellows invented in Germany in 1620, and which tues and small medals in cast iron is successfully prac- continue to be employed in the charcoal iron furnaces in tised. But in none of the other countries of Europe is Germany and France. Bellows connected by leather, cast iron so generally used, and nowhere is it manufactur- and worked by water, were used to blow the blast-furnaces ed on so large a scale, and with the employment of so at Carron at the commencement of that establishment in 1760. Some time after, these bellows gave place to blowmuch capital, as in Britain. Extended Pit-coal has been the main instrument in this extensive ing machines, composed of pistons working in iron cylinby the use manufacture. As it gives a better heat for the melting of ders, constructed by the celebrated Smeaton, and describof pit-coal. cast ;ronj an(i saves the great extent of ground required ed in his reports. The blowing machines of the blastfor rearing wood, the greater part of the cast iron in Bri- furnaces in Britain are now always composed ol pistons tain is now extracted from the ironstone, and made into moving in iron cylinders. The improvements in the steamcastings by pit-coal. Pit-coal began to be used in the engine have rendered practicable the working of blastsmelting of ironstone in 1619. This first operation was furnaces in situations where there is no fall of water; and, performed in Worcestershire by Dudley, who describes his on the other hand, the manufacture of the various parts of process in a book entitled MetaUum Martis. The manu- numerous steam-engines has called forth the abilities and facture of cast iron was not much advanced one hundred ingenuity of the iron founder. In consequence of the advanced state of the English years afterwards; for in the first half of the eighteenth century cast-iron goods w-ere imported into some part of cast-iron manufacture, several foreign nations have been Britain from Holland ; and the Dutch chimney-backs, with desirous of introducing the English method, and have the figure of a parrot, are to be seen in old country houses procured English workmen for that pui’pose. In this way iron-works on the English plan were erected in Russia in Scotland to this day. Two kinds of mineral are smelted- for iron in Britain. about 1780, in Silesia in 1790; and in France, at Creusot, The first is the haematites of Ulverstone and the neigh- twelve miles south of Autun, there were three English bourhood of Whitehaven, which, as it contains much iron coak blast-furnaces begun about 1790, under the direction (60 per cent.), is carried by sea to smelting furnaces in of William Wilkinson. The strength of guns depends on the strength of the Strength different parts of Britain. The second is the argillaceous ironstone, which constitutes some of the strata that accom- metal of which the gun is composed, and on the quantity caliber, pany pit-coal. This is more generally used than the hae- of metal and the manner in which it is disposed. TsionsoT; matites. And it is in the vicinity of the masses of strati- subject will be considered in the article Gunnery, fhe cant]0!i fied minerals which yield coal and ironstone that the prin- nature of the subject does not admit of determining with cipal iron-works in Britain are set down. These strata are precision the best weight and length that can be given found in various parts of the island, and are portions of to a gun fitted for exploding a ball of a given weight. that class of depositions called by geologists the coal for- Guns of the same caliber are consequently made of differmation. A stratum of coal or of ironstone of consider- ent dimensions even in the same country, ffhe four tables able extent is termed by the coal and iron masters a coal that follow contain the weight, length, and other dimensions of British and of French guns. field, or an ironstone field. 1.—Table of the Length, Weight, Caliber, and Charges of British Government Iron Guns. Length.

42 32 24 18 12 9

Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun Pounder gun

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Weight.

In. Cwt. lb. 0 67 0 0 58 0 0 52 0 6 42 0 6 34 0 6 30 1 0 24 0 0 12 1 7 1

Diameter Diameter Diameter of the of the Shot. of the Shot Gauge. Bore. Inches. 7-018 6-410 5-824 5-292 4-623 4-20 3-668 3-204 2-913 2-544 2-019 1-602

Inches. 6-684 6-105 .5-547 5-040 4-403 4-000 3-498 3-053 2-775 2-423 1-293 1-526

Inches. 6-795 6-207 5-639 5-124 4-476 4-066 3-552 3-104 2-820 2-463 1-955 1-551

Charge. Proof. Service lb. lb. 25-0 14-0 21-8 10-11 18-0 8-0 6-0 15-0 4-0 12-0 3-0 9-0 2-0 6-0 1-5 4-0 1*0 3-0 2-0 0-11 0*6 1-0 0-3 0-8

CAN CAN 89 annon II.— Table of the Length, Weight, and Caliber of Iron trunk of a tree hollowed, and sometimes of several pieces Canon, I! Ordnance used on Board British Merchant Ships in of the bark put together. ,anoe ', 1811. Canoes are of various sizes, according to the uses for which they may be designed, or the countries in which Length from they are formed. The largest are made of the cotton tree ; Diameter of and Base-ring to Weight. some of them will carry between twenty and thirty Bore. Muzzle-end. hogsheads of sugar or molasses. Others are made to carry sail, and for this purpose are steeped in water till they beFeet. In. Cwt. lb. oz. Inches. come pliant, after which their sides are extended, and 5 0 9 Pounder gun 14 2 0 4-2 strong beams placed between them, on which a deck is 9 1 17 6 Pounder gun.. 3-668 afterwards laid that serves to support their sides. The 6 3 21 4 Pounder gun.. 32 other sorts very rarely carry sail, unless when going be12 Pounder carfore the wind; their sails are made of a sort of short silk 10 1 0 ronade 45 grass or rushes. They are commonly rowed with paddles, 9 Pounder carwhich are pieces of light wood somewhat resembling a 8 1 23 ronade 4-11 corn shovel; and, instead of rowing with it horizontally 9 Pounder carlike an oar, they manage it perpendicularly. The small ronade light. 6 2 21 4-11 canoes are very narrow, having only room for one person 6 Pounder carin breadth, and seven or eight lengthwise. The rowers, ronade 6 0 8 3-6 who are generally American savages, are very expert in managing their paddles uniformly, and in balancing the III.— Table of the Length and Weight of Iron Gmis used canoes with their bodies, which would be difficult for a in the French Navy in 1794. stranger to do, how well accustomed soever to the conducting of European boats, because the canoes are exLength from Length of the tremely light, and liable to be overturned. The Amerithe extremity can Indians, when they are under the necessity of landing Head with Weight of the Pommel which of the the Gun Gun. to avoid a water-fall, or of crossing the land from one river to extremity of is cast. to another, carry their canoes on their heads till they arMuzzle. rive at a place where they can launch them again. This Pietls. Ponces. Pieds. Ponces. Lbs. is the general construction of canoes, and method of ma36 Pounder gun.. 10 0 3 0 7190 naging them; but some nations have vessels, under the 24 Pounder gun 9 5116 name of canoes, which differ considerably from the above, 18 Pounder gun.. 8 10* 4212 as the inhabitants of Greenland, Hudson’s Bay, Otaheite, 12 Pounder gun.. 8 2* 2995 and other places. 8 Pounder gun CANON, a person who possesses a prebend, or revenue long 8 710 2382 ' 12 allotted for the performance of divine service in a cathe8 Pounder gun dral or collegiate church. 510 short 7 °12 2056 Canons are of no great antiquity. Paschier observes, 6 Pounder gum that the name canon w-as not known before Charlemagne; long..., 7 7* 1733 at least the first we hear of are in Gregory de Tours, who 4 Pounder, 6 0* mentions a college of canons instituted by Baldwin XVI. archbishop of that city, in the time of Clotharius I. The IV.— Table of the Weight of Brass Guns used in the common opinion attributes the institution of this order to French Land Service in 1794, and the Weight of the Chrodegangus, bishop of Metz, about the middle of the eighth century. Mead with which they are Cast. Originally canons were only priests, or inferior ecclesiastics, who lived in community, residing by the cathedral Length from the extremity Weight Weight church to assist the bishop, depending entirely on his will, of Pommel to of the supported by the revenues of the bishopric, and living of the extremity of Gun. Head. in the same house as his domestics or counsellors. They Muzzle. even inherited his movables till the year 817, when this was prohibited by the council of Aix-la-Chapelle, and a Pieds. Ponces. Lbs. Lbs. new rule substituted in the place of that which had been 24 Founder^ Battering 10-^5628 3100 appointed by Chrodegangus, and which was observed for 16 Pounder f guns 10 43 4111 2600 r 3 2 the most part in the west till the twelfth century. By V 9 Q_l_ 12 Pounder Garrison 3184 1800 12 degrees these communities of priests, shaking off their 3 8 Pounder 8 9JL 2175 guns 1200 l2 dependence, formed separate bodies, of which the bishops, 7 12 Pounder 7 UftT2 1808 1235 however, were still heads. In the tenth century there Field 1 1-JL 8 Pounder 6 1186 950 12 were communities or congregations of the same kind espieces 4 Pounder 4 10A 590 550 '12 tablished even in cities w here there were no bishops ; and 1 Pounder | For light 3 10 these were called collegiates, as they used the terms con266 250 troops gregation and college indifferently ; the name chapter, now given to these bodies, being much more modern. Under (b. b.) the second race of the French kings, the Canonical or colCANNONADE, the application of artillery to the pur- legiate life had spread itself all over the country; and each poses of war, or the direction of its efforts against some cathedral had its chapter distinct from the rest of the distant object intended to be seized or destroyed, as a clergy. They had the name canon from the Greek xavuv, ship, battery, or fortress. See Gunnery and War. which signifies three different things; a rule, a pension or CANO. See Kano. fixed revenue to live on, and a catalogue or matricula, all CANOE, a sort of Indian boat or vessel, formed of the which are applicable to them. VOL. VI. M

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CAN C A N In time, the canons freed themselves from their rules, general councils. The Greek canons in this second col- Canou the observance relaxed, and at length they ceased to live lection end with those of the council of Chalcedon; to yv in community; yet they still formed bodies, pretending which are subjoined those of the council of Sardica, and to other functions besides the celebration of the common the African councils. The fourth and last collection comes office in the church, assuming the rights of the rest of down as low as the second council of Nice; and it is on the clergy, making themselves necessary as a council of this that Balsamon and Zonaras have commented, the bishop, taking upon them the administration of a see Apostolical Canons are those which have been usually during a vacancy, and the election of a bishop to supply ascribed to St Clement. Bellarmin, Baronius, and others, it. There are even some chapters exempt from the juris- will have them to be genuine canons of the apostles. Cadiction of the bishop, and owning no head but their dean, telerius observes that they cannot be ascribed totheapostles From the example of cathedral chapters, collegiate ones or Clement, because they are not received with other books also continued to form bodies after they had abandoned of Scripture, are not quoted by the writers of the first living in community. ages, and contain many things not agreeable to the aposCanons are of various kinds ; as, tolical times. Hincmar, de Marca, Beveridge, and others, Cardinal Canons, who were those attached, and, as the believe them to have been framed by the bishops who were Latins call it, incardinati, to a church, as a priest is to a the apostles’ disciples in the second or third century; S. parish • Basnage is of opinion that they were collected by an anonyDomicellary Canons, young canons, who, not being in mous writer in the fifth century, but Daille and others orders, had no right in any particular chapters. maintain them to have been forged by some heretic in the Expectative Canons, or such as, without having any re- sixth century; and S. Basnage conjectures that some of venue or prebend, had the title and dignities of canons, a them are ancient, and others not older than the seventh voice in the chapter, and a place in the choir, till such century. The Greek church allows eighty-five of them, tim^ as a prebend should become vacant. and the Latin only fifty; though there are eighty-four in Foreign Canons, or such as did not officiate in the ca- the edition given of them in the Corpus Juris Canomci. nonries to which they belonged. To these were opposCanon is also used for the authorized catalogue of the ed mansionary canons, or canons residentiary. sacred writings. See Bible. Lag or Honorary Canons, who are those among the laity The ancient canon, or catalogue of the books of the who have been admitted, out of honour and respect, into Old Testament, was made by the Jews, and is ordinarily some chapter of canons. attributed to Ezra, who is said to have distributed them Regular Canons, who are canons that still live in com- into the law, the prophets, and the hagiographa, to which munity, and, like religious, have in process of time added our Saviour refers, Luke, chap. xxiv. ver. 44. Ihe same the solemn profession of vows to the practice of their division is also mentioned by Josephus (Cord. Appion.) rules. They are called regulars, to distinguish them from This is the canon allowed to have been followed by those secular canons who abandon living in community, the primitive church till the council of Carthage; and at the same time the observance of the canons made according to St Jerome, it consisted of no more than as the rule of the clergy for the maintenance of the an- twenty-two books, answering to the number of the Hecient discipline. The canons subsisted in their simpli- brew alphabet, though at present they are classed into city till the eleventh or twelfth century, wdien some of twenty-four divisions, containing Genesis, Exodus, Levithem, separating from the community, took with them the ticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, name of canons, or acephalous priests, because they de- Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the twelve minor proclined to live in community with the bishop; and those phets, the Psalms, the Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, who were left thenceforth acquired the denomination of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, comprecanons regular, and adopted most of the professions of bending the book of Nehemiah and the Chronicles. Howthe rule of St Augustin. This order of regular canons ever, this order is not universally observed either among of St Augustin was brought into England by Adelwald, Jews or Christians ; nor were all the books above enumeratconfessor ^o Henry L, who erected a priory at Nostel in ed admitted into the canon in Ezra’s time. It is most likely, Yorkshire, and obtained for them the church of Carlisle says Dr Prideaux, that the two books of Chronicles, Ezra, as an episcopal see, with the privilege of choosing their Nehemiah, Esther, and Malachi, were added in the time own bishop. They were singularly protected and encou- of Simon the Just, when the canon was completed. But raged by Henry I. who gave them the priory of Dunsta- that council enlarged the canon very considerably, taking ble in 1107; and by Queen Maud, who, in the following into it the books which we call apocryphal ; which the year, gave them the priory of the Holy Trinity in London, council of Trent has further enforced, enjoining all these It appears that under the reign of Edward I. they had to be received as books of Holy Scripture, upon pain of fifty-three priories. anathema, and being attainted of heiesy. 4 he KomanTertiary Canons, or those who had only the third part of ists, in defence of this canon, say that it is the same with an the revenues of the canonicate. that of the council of Hippo, held in d with that Canon, in an ecclesiastical sense, is a law or rule, either of the third council of Carthage, in 397, at which weie of doctrine or discipline, enacted especially by a council, present forty-six bishops, and among the rest fet Augusand confirmed by the authority of the sovereign. tin, who declared that they had received it from their faCanons are properly decisions of matters of religion ; or thers. regulations of the policy and discipline of a church, made Their canon of the New Testament perfectly agrees by councils, either general, national, or provincial. Such with ours. It consists of books that are well known, and are the canons of the councils of Nice, Trent, &c. some of which have been universally acknowledged, such as There have been various collections of the canons of the the Gospels, and acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles of eastern councils; but there are four principal ones, each am- St Paul, one Epistle of St Peter, and one Epistle of St pier than the preceding. The first, according to Usher, a. n. John; and others, concerning which doubts were enter380, containing only those of the first ecumenical council, tained, but which were afterwards received as genuine, and the first provincial ones; they were only 164 in num- such as the Epistle to the Hebrews, that of James, the her. To these, Dionysius Exiguus, in the year 520, add- second of Peter, the second and third of John, that of ed the fifty canons of the apostles, and those of the other Jude, and the Revelation. These books were written at

CAN 91 Ptolemy and his followers have been called Canonici, as Canon non. different times; and they are authenticated, not by the Law. v|,decrees of councils, or infallible authority, but by such those of Aristoxenus were called Musici. Canon, in modern music, is a kind of fugue which they v— kind of evidence as is thought sufficient in the case of any other ancient writings. They were very extensively dif- call a perpetual fugue, because the different parts beginfused; they were read in every Christian society; they ning one after another repeat incessantly the same air. were valued and preserved with care by the first Christians; See Music. Canon, in Geometry and Algebra, a general rule for the they were cited by Christian writers of the second, third, and fourth centuries, as by Irenaeus, Clement the Alex- solution of all cases of a similar nature to that from which andrian, Tertullian, Origen, Eusebius, and others; and their it is primarily deduced. Thus every last step of an equagenuineness is proved by the testimony of those who were tion is a canon ; and, if turned into words, becomes a rule to contemporary with the apostles themselves, and by tradi- solve all questions of the same nature with that proposed. CANON LAW is a term used to denote the ecclesiastion. The four Gospels, and most of the other books of the New Testament, were collected either by one of the tical law sanctioned by the church of Rome, and possessing apostles, or some of their disciples and successors, before more or less direct influence in all countries which acthe end of the first century. The catalogue of canonical knowledge the authority of the pope. The word xavaji/ books furnished by the more ancient Christian writers, as signifies a rule, and this word was not at first considered Origen about the year 210, Eusebius and Athanasius in as too feeble to express the claims of the church to the 315, Epiphanius in 370, Jerome in 382, Austin in 394, obedience of her children; but, in the progress of priestand many others, agrees with that which is now received ly usurpation, the successor of St Peter began to arrogate a more ample and definite jurisdiction, and to extend his among Christians. Some of the fathers distinguish the inspired writings regulations to many causes which are not strictly ecclesiinto three classes ; proto-canonical, deutero-canonlcal, and astical. The stupendous fabric of papal dominion attained its full height in the eleventh century, under the ausapocryphal. Paschal Canon, a table of the movable feasts, showing pices of Hildebrand, who was elected in the year 1073, the day of Easter, and the other feasts depending on it, and assumed the name of Gregory VII. It was one of his dictates, that the church of Rome has never erred, for a cycle of nineteen years. The paschal canon is supposed to be the calculation of and,1 according to the testimony of Scripture, never shall Eusebius of Caesarea, and to have been done by order of err; and after this maxim was fully admitted, nothing remained to obstruct the progress of spiritual arrogance. the council of Nice. Canon, in monastic orders, a book in which the religious What had formerly been described as a rule, was now digof every convent have a fair transcript of the rules of their nified with the name of law; and from this period, a peorder, frequently read among them as their local statutes. riod of the deepest ignorance and superstition, the canon This is also called regula, as containing the rule and in- law obtained great influence in most countries of Europe. stitution of their order. The canon differs from the missale, After the foundation of those seminaries of learning which martyrologium, and necrologium. we denominate universities, it acquired a distinguished Canon, again, is used for the catalogue of saints ac- place among the other faculties ; and a knowledge of the canon law became a common road to the highest honours. knowledged and canonized in the Romish church. Canon is also used, by way of excellence, in the Ro- It is a maxim of the commentators, that a Doctor of the mish church, for the secret words of the mass, from the Canon Law is to be preferred to a Doctor of Divinity in preface to the Pater; in the middle of which the priest such dioceses as do not contain many heretics.2 consecrates the host. The common opinion is, that the The canon law is derived from many different sources. canon of the mass commences with Te igitur, &c. The The authority of the Scriptures cannot be entirely disrepeople are to be on their knees, hearing the canon, and garded ; but the writings of the fathers and doctors of the are to rehearse it to themselves so as not to be heard. church, the decrees of councils, and the decretals of popes, Canon, in the ancient music, is a rule or mode of de- are much better adapted to the general views of the catermining the intervals of notes. Ptolemy, rejecting the nonists. The canon is to a great extent to be considerAristoxenian way of measuring the intervals in music, by ed as the spurious offspring of the civil law : what is most the magnitude of a tone, which was supposed to be form- valuable it has derived from the Roman jurisprudence; ed by the difference between a diapente and a diatessa- and its own peculiar maxims and rules have all the same ron, thought that musical intervals should be distinguish- general tendency towards the power and aggrandizement ed according to the ratios or proportions which the sounds of churchmen. terminating those intervals bear to one another, when The Greek church has bequeathed various reliques, which considered according to their degree of acuteness or gra- cannot be safely neglected by those who investigate the vity, which, before Aristoxenus, was the old Pythagorean history of the canon law, as well as the general history of way. He therefore made the diapason consist in a dou- the church. Its Codex Canonunfi is confirmed by the 131 ble ratio, the diapente in a sesquialterate, the diatessa- Novel of Justinian, and is therefore considered as a porron in a sesquitertian, and the tone itself in a sesqui- tion of the civil law. From this collection the emperor octave, and all the other intervals according to the pro- borrowed those ecclesiastical constitutions which occur in portion of the sounds that terminate them; wherefore the Code and Novels. We cannot however pursue this taking the canon, as it is called, for a determinate line of branch of enquiry, but shall merely direct the reader’s atany length, he shows how this canon is to be cut accord- tention to two very elaborate publications. The first of ingly, so that it may represent the respective intervals; these is the “ Bibliotheca Juris Canonici veteris: ex anand this method answers exactly to experiment, in the tiquis codicibus MSS. bibliothecae Christophori Justelli, different lengths of musical chords. From this canon opera et studio Gulielmi Voelli et Henrici Justelli.” LuC

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92 C A N O N L A W. Canon, tetiae Paris. 1661, 2 tom. fol. For the other we are in- authorities, by supposing that Gratian commenced his Canon debted to Dr Beveridge, the very learned bishop of St work in 1127, and completed it in 1151, thus 2allowing a Asaph: “ Zwobixov, sive Pandect® Canonum SS. Aposto- period of twenty-four years for its composition. The Delorum, et Conciliorum ab Ecclesia Graeca receptorum; cretum was presented to his holiness Eugenius III., who by conferring upon nec non canonicarum SS. Patrum Epistolarum: una cum is said to have testified his approbation 3 scholiis antiquorum singulis eorum annexis, et scriptis aliis him the bishopric of Chiusi. It never obtained the forhue spectantibus.” Oxonii, 1672, 2 tom. fol. Ibis publica- mal sanction of the pope ; but although it is thus to be retion was followed by his “ Codex Canonum Ecclesiae pri- garded as the work of a private individual, it speedily semitiv® vindicatus et illustratus.” Lond. 1678, 4to. Nor cured, and has ever since maintained, a degree of authoa near approach to that which belongs to must we here neglect to mention a very recent work by rity which makes 4 Professor Biener of Berlin : “ De Collectionibus Canonum written law. The principal sources from which his comEcclesi® Gr®c® Schediasma litterarium.” Berolini, 1827, pilation is derived, are the sacred Scriptures, the spurious work described as the Apostolical Canons, the decisions of 8vo. Of the rules or laws received by the Latin church, there ecumenical and local councils, the decretal epistles, partwere many ancient collections. Dionysius Exiguus, an ly genuine and partly spurious, of seventy-eight Roman abbot who flourished about the beginning of the sixth pontiffs, the works of the Greek and Latin fathers and century, formed two different compilations, one of the other ecclesiastical writers, the Theodosian Code and the canons of the church, another of the decretals of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the capitularies of kings of France bishop of Rome; and this was the earliest collection of and the rescripts of emperors. It is divided into three decretals. These were followed by the collections of Ful- parts; of which the first and third are subdivided into5 gentius Ferrandus, who flourished soon afterwards ; of distinctions, and the second into causes and questions. Isidorus Hispalensis, who was bishop of Seville from 595 Gratian, who wrote in an unenlightened age, is chargeable to 636 ; of Cresconius, who flourished about the year 690; with many errors of ignorance or inadvertence, which the of Isidorus Mercator, otherwise called Peccator, who canonists have not scrupled to detect and expose. Auwrote about the year 800, and is described as “ impostor gustinus has composed a series of dialogues De Emendanequissimusand of various other compilers, whose la- tione Gratiani, in which the reader will find much learned bours we have not at present an opportunity of reviewing. and curious disquisition; and many other writers, editors Burchardus, who was bishop of Worms from 996 to 1025, as well as commentators, have endeavoured to rectify erformed a compilation of the canon law, described as rors and supply defects. “ To the compilations of Isidore “ Magnum Decretorum Volumen,” and divided into twen- and Gratian,” says a catholic lawyer, “ one of the greatest ty books. Ivo Carnotensis, bishop of Chartres from 1092 misfortunes of the church, the claim of the popes to temto 1115, was the author of a similar compilation, which poral power by divine right, may in some measure be bears the title of Decretum ; and to him is ascribed ano- attributed. That a claim so unfounded and so impious, ther work on the canon law, sometimes called Pannomia, so detrimental to religion, and so hostile to the peace of is strange—stranger and sometimes Pannormia. Both these works have been the world, should have been made, yet is the success it met with.”6 repeatedly printed. The second collection which appears in the body of the Ivo was followed by Gratian, whose Decretum forms the first and most ample part of the Corpus Juris Canonici. canon law is entitled Decretalium D. Gregorii Papce IX. He was a native of Clusium, or Chiusi, near Florence, and, Compilatio. It was formed under the direction and auaccording to a very improbable account, was the brother thority of this pontiff, who filled the chair of St Peter of Petrus Lombardus and Petrus Comestor. One of these from 1237 to 1241. He is himself commended for his three individuals was a native of Tuscany, another, as his skill in jurisprudence, and in the execution of this plan he name denotes, of Lombardy, and the third of France; employed Raymundus de Penyafort, a learned Spaniard, but, in order to remove the difficulty which arises from who was afterwards enrolled in the catalogue of saints.? this variety in the places of their nativity, some writers The work is divided into five books, and each book into do their mother the honour of supposing that her three various titles. “ Epistol® decretales” are rescripts of the distinguished sons were the fruit of her unlawful inter- popes, in answer to prelates or other individuals by wdiom course with three different fathers, at different periods, they have been consulted. They are sometimes called and in different places. Gratian was a Benedictine monk Decretalia, but commonly Decretales, the words Rescripof the monastery of St Felix and St Nabor at Bologna. ta and Epistol® being respectively understood. The work His work has long been commonly known by the. title of however is not strictly conformable to- its title ; for alDecretum, but is more correctly described as “ Decreto- though the greater part of it is composed of decretals, the rum Collectaneaand it is remarked by the very learn- compiler has had recourse to various other authorities. Gregory’s decretals are followed by Liber sextus Decreed archbishop of Tarragona, that the old manuscripts talium D. Donifacii Papce VIII. which, notwithstanding scarcely ever bear the former title, but generally that of “ Concordia discordantium Canonum.”1 According to the the general title, is divided into five books. It was inusual account, it was compiled in the year 1151: this may tended as supplementary to the other collection, and was indeed have been the period of its completion, but it evi- compiled under the authority of Boniface, whose pontifidently was not the labour of a single year. Cardinal cate extended from 1294 to 1303. Besides the decretals Bellarmin has endeavoured to reconcile two conflicting of Boniface himself, and of preceding popes, ascending 1 2 3 4

Augustinus de Emendatione Gratiani, p. 3, edit. Baluzii. Paris. 1672, 8vo. Bellanninus de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, p. 187. edit. Colon. 1684, 4to. Pancirolus de Claris Legum Interpretibus, p 317. edit. Hoffinanni. Lipsise, 1721, 4to. Mastricht, p. 332. Doujat, Histoire du Droit Canonique, p. 92. Paris, 1677, 12mo. Doujat, Prsenotionum Canonicarum libri quinque, p. 547- edit. Paris. 1687, 4to. 5 Of the usual method of quoting the Decretum and other portions of the canon law, the reader will find an account in Bishop Hallifax’s Analysis of the Roman Civil Law, p 2. 6 Butler’s Horse Juridicse subsecivse, p. 170. i Antonii Bibliotheca Hispana vetus, tom. ii. p. 67. edit. Bayerii.

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CANON LAW. 93 to Gregory IX., it includes decrees of the two general man of ability and learning, and are generally composed Canon. in a style of pregnant brevity. councils held at Lyons in 1245 and 1274. The subsequent progress of the canon law, together The next work in the series bears the title of Constitutiones dementis Papce V. in Concilio Vienensi editce, and with the more recent method of expounding it, must be is likewise divided into five books. Clement, whose resi- learned from other writers. The most distinguished cadence was at Avignon, presided in the council of Vienne nonist of the last century was Dr Van Espen, professor of in the year 1312; and in addition to the constitutions the canon law in the university of Louvain, whose works exthere enacted, his collection comprehends some other tend to five volumes in folio. His Jus Ecclesiasticum uniconstitutions and decretals which he himself divulged be- versum Mr Butler has described as “ a work which, for fore or after the holding of that council. After his death, depth and extent of research, clearness of method, and these dementince were promulgated in the year 1317 by perspicuity of style, equals any work of jurisprudence his successor John the Twenty-first, otherwise called John which has issued from the press: but which, in some places, where the author’s dreary Jansenism prevails, must the Twenty-second. 1 Of the same pope, who likewise resided at Avignon, be read with disgust.” The life of the learned and conto state, has been elathere is a collection of twenty consitutions, which bear scientious author, it may be proper 2 the name of Extravagantes Joannis XXII. They were borately written by Bellegarde.” There are other two so called, because for some time they wandered beyond recent works on the canon law which we must recommend the limits of the collection which contained the works al- to the student’s notice. “ Caroli Sebastiani Berardi Comready enumerated as belonging to the body of the canon mentaria in Jus Ecclesiasticum universum.” Venetiis, law. The next work, which is entitled Extravagantes 1789, 4 tom. 4to. “ Joannis Devoti Institutionum CanoCommunes, and is divided into five books, comprehends nicarum libri IV.” Florentiae, 1816-7, 4 tom. 8vo. Neithe constitutions of various popes, concluding with Sixtus ther of these is the earliest edition. Those who have any wish to ascertain how the canon law is now taught by the IV. whose pontificate extended from 1471 to 1484. These are all the different compilations which consti- catholics of Germany, may consult the following works. tute what is denominated the body of the canon law. It “ Mauri de Schenkl Institutiones Juris Ecclesiastici commay be proper to add that the best edition bears this ti- munis : editio emendata et valde adaucta a Josepho tle : “ Corpus Juris Canonic!, Gregorii XIII. Pont. Max.jussu Scheill.” Landishuti in Bavaria, 1830, 2 tom. 8vo. “ Funeditum : a Petro Pithceo et Francisco fratre, Jurisconsultis, damenta Juris Ecclesiastici Catholicorum : in usus schoad veteres codices manuscriptos restitutum, et notis illus- lasticos conscripsit Jos. Anton. Sauter.” Rotwilae, 1825-6, tratum.” Parishs, 1687, 2 tom. fol. Of a more recent as 2 tom. 8vo. The canon law was ably illustrated by some well as more early date, there are many other editions of the German protestants, particularly by Ziegler, Thowhich we cannot here enumerate; and we shall only men- masius, and Bbhmer. Such was the reputation enjoyed tion another, which was published by a protestant profes- by the last of these individuals, that difficult and intricate sor : “ Corpus Juris Canonici: Justus Henningius Boehmer, processes were frequently transmitted from Italy, to be J. C. recensuit, cum codicibus veteribus manuscriptis aliis- decided by the law-faculty of the university of Halle, que editionibus contulit, variantes lectiones adjecit, notis il- during the period when Bdhmer was dean. Nor is this study neglected by the protestants of our own age. Dr lustravit.” Halae Magdeburg. 1747, 2 tom. 4to. The Institutes of Jo. Paulus Lancelottus, divided into Walter, professor of law in the university of Bonn, is the four books, are inserted in different editions of the Cor- author of a work, published for the fourth time, under the pus; and this circumstance has led some individuals, su- title of “ Lehrbuch des Kirchenrechts aller Christlichen perficially acquainted with the subject, to suppose that Confessionen.” Bonn, 1829, 8vo. And a similar work they form an essential part of the authorized collection. has more recently been published by Eichhorn of GottinThey are however the production of a private law- gen, well known for his history of the German law. yer, and having never received the sanction of the pope, While the papal power was yet in its meridian height, they possess no authority beyond that which belongs to this system of jurisprudence could only claim the proper the character of the author as an able interpreter of the force of law within the papal dominions. It maintained a canon law. This work was undertaken with the approba- very powerful and direct influence in every other country tion of Paul IV.: fifteen years elapsed before its comple- which acknowledged the bishop of Rome’s supremacy; tion ; and Lancelottus, having at length submitted it to but its dictates were controlled by the legislative authothe papal censors, and lingered two years in Rome, was rity, and modified by the practice of the courts, in each compelled to abandon the hope of obtaining the sanction of the countries where it found admission. Thus the of his holiness Pius IV. The book was published in 1563, canon law of France differed in many respects from that a few months before the dissolution of the council of of Spain, and the canon law of England from that of Trent. The only favour which the author could obtain Austria. “ All the strength,” says Sir Matthew Hale, was that his Institutes might be added to the Corpus, but “ that either the papal or imperial laws have obtained in without any confirmation of their authority. They are this kingdom, is only because they have been received sometimes inserted, and sometimes omitted; nor do they and admitted either by the consent of parliament, and so occur in that edition which we have already mentioned as are part of the statute laws of the kingdom, or else by the best. As they do not include the changes and modi- immemorial usage and custom in some particular cases fications introduced by the council of Trent, they require in courts, and no otherwise, and therefore so far as such the aid of a perpetual commentary. The Institutes of laws are received and allowed here, so far they obtain, Lancelottus are closely modelled upon those of Justinian. and no further; and the authority and force they have His subject does not easily admit of any high degree of here is not founded on, or derived from themselves; for classical purity, but the work is at least written with much so they bind no more with us than our laws bind in Rome neatness and perspicuity. The notes of Doujat form a or Italy.”3 These remarks, written in protestant times, very important addition : they evidently proceed from a were equally applicable during the times of popery. 1 2

Butler's Horse Juridicse subsecivse, p. 184. Vie de M. Van Espen, Docteur es Droits, et Professeur des Saints Canons dans I’Universite de Louvain; oil I’on trouve des dclaircissemens historiques sur tous les Ecrits ci-devant imprimis de ce Docteur. Louvain, 1767, 8vo. 3 Hale’s Hist, of the Common Law of England, p. 27.

CAN CAN 94 Canoness The influence of the canon law in countries which have canonica, as consisting of a few canons or rules for direct- Canonic-, ing the understanding in the pursuit and knowledge of || II Canonica. long abjured the authority of the pope, renders it even truth. The canonica of Epicurus is represented as a very Canonic there a study of occasional importance to lawyers. “ So lte ^ deep,” says Lord Stair, “ hath this canon law been root- slight and insufficient logic by several of the ancients, who ed, that even where the pope’s authority is rejected, yet put a great value on his ethics and physics. Laertius even consideration must be had to these laws, not only as those assures us that the Epicureans rejected logic as a superby which church benefices have been erected and ordered, fluous science; and Plutarch complains that Epicurus but as likewise containing many equitable and profitable made an unskilful and preposterous use of syllogisms. laws, which, because of their weighty matter, and their But these censures seem too severe. Epicurus was not beino- once received, may more fitly be retained than re- averse to the study of logic, but even gave better rules in jected.”1 We cannot refrain from adding, that some know- this art than those philosophers who aimed at no glory ledge of the canon law, at least of its history and external but that of being thought logicians. He only seems to form, is of no small consequence to those who wish to un- have rejected the dialectics of the Stoics, as full of vain derstand the history and literature of the middle ages. This subtilties and deceits, and fitted rather for parade and remark we shall endeavour to confirm by one or two ex- disputation than real use. The stress of Epicurus’s canoamples. Winton, the venerable prior of Lochleven, after nica consists in his doctrine of the criteria of truth. All having mentioned the irregular manner in which Walter questions in philosophy are either concerning words or Danielstoun took possession of "the see of St Andrews, sub- things : concerning things, we seek their truth ; concerning words, their signification: things are either natural or joins this observation: moral; and the former are either perceived by sense or by Yeit be this electioune He dyd all ministratioune the understanding. Hence, according to Epicurus, arise In jurisdictioune spirituale, three criteria of truth, namely, sense, anticipation or prsenoAnd in all thingis temporale. tion, and passion. The great canon or principle of EpicuAll that quhile, rycht as he —' rus’s logic is, that the senses are never deceived; and Had had lauchful autorite, therefore, that every sensation or perception of an appear• Pretendand ay for2 his resown ance is true. Nichil de electione. CANONICAL, something that belongs to, or partakes This passage, which to most readers must appear suffiof, the nature of a rule or canon. ciently obscure, the very accurate and intelligent editor, Canonical Hours are certain stated times of the day, Macpherson, has left without explanation or conjecture. It bears an allusion to the Decretales Gregorii IX. lib. i. consigned, more especially by the Romish church, to the tit. vi. cap. xliv. § 2. Nihil is the first word of the chap- offices of prayer and devotion. Such are matins, lauds, ter, and de electione denotes the subject of the title, or sixth and ninth vespers. In our country the canonical hours subdivision of the book. Danielstoun, whose election are from eight to twelve in the forenoon, before or after had not been confirmed by the pope, evidently relied on which marriage cannot be legally performed in any parish the authority of the subsequent passage: “ Ita quod in- church. Canonical Obedience is that submission which, by the terim valde remoti, videlicet ultra Italiam constituti, si electi fuerint in concordia, dispensative propter necessi- ecclesiastical laws, the inferior clergy are bound to pay to tates ecclesiarum et utilitates, in spiritualibus et tempo- their bishops, and religious persons to their superiors. Canonical Sins, in the ancient church, those which ralibus administrent, sic tamen ut de rebus ecclesiasticis were deemed capital or mortal. Such especially were nihil penitus alienent.” Sir David Lindsay, another Scotish poet, makes the fol- idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy, and schism. Canonical Punishments are those which the church lowing allusion to the inordinate pretensions of the pope : may inflict; such as excommunication, degradation, and His style at lenth gif thow wald knaw, penance, in Roman Catholic countries; also fasting, alms, Thow moste ga luke the cannon law : whipping, and the like. Eaith in the Sext and Clementene 3 His staitlie style thair may be sene. Canonical Life, the method or rule of living prescribHis editor, Mr George Chalmers, who was guilty of a ed by the ancient clergy who lived in community. The radical error when he supposed himself to be a man of canonical life was a kind of medium between the monastic learning, has subjoined this curious annotation. “ The and clerical lives. Originally the orders of monks and allusion is to the works of Pomponius Sextus, the great clerks were entirely distinct; but pious persons, in projurist of the third century.” It is first to be remarked cess of time, instituted colleges of priests and canons, that Pomponius 4 did not flourish in the third, but in the where clerks, brought up for the ministry, as well as others second century; but if this “ great jurist,” of whom he already engaged therein, might live under a fixed rule, though somewhat more easy than the monastic, speaks so familiarly, had actually written in the third cen- which, r tury, how could he have illustrated the temporal power w as yet more restrained than the secular. This was calland splendour of the pope before Christianity was esta- ed the canonical life, and those who embraced it canons. blished in the Roman empire? The Sext to which Lind- Authors are divided about the founder of the canonical life. Some wdll have it to be founded by the apostles; say refers is manifestly the “ Liber sextus Decretalium and the other authority which he appropriately quotes are others ascribe it to Pope Urban I. about the year 1230, who is said to have ordered bishops to provide such of the Clementince, or constitutions of Clement V. (x.) CANONESS, in the Romish church, a woman who en- their clergy as were willing to live in community, with joys a prebend, affixed, by the foundation, to maids, with- necessaries out of the revenues of their churches. The out their being obliged to renounce the world, or make generality attribute it to St Augustin, who, having gathered a number of clerks to devote themselves to reliany vows. CANONICA, in philosophical history, an appellation gion, instituted a monastery within the episcopal palace, given by Epicurus to his doctrine of logic. It was called where he lived in community w ith them. Onuphrius Pan1

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Stair’s Institutions of the Law of Scotland, b. i. tit. i. § 14. Winton’s Cronykil of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 398. * Lindsay’s Works, vol. iii. p. 89. 4 Guil. Grotii Vitse Jurisconsultorum, p. 150. Bachii Hist. Jurisprudentue Romanse, p. 477.

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vinus brings the institution somewhat lower; according to him, Pope Gelasius I. about the year 495, placed the first regular canons of St Augustin in the Lateran church. Canonical Letters, in the ancient church, were a sort of testimonials of the orthodox faith, which the bishops and clergy sent each other, to keep up the Catholic communion, and distinguish orthodox Christians from Arians and other heretics. They were denominated canonical, either as being composed according to a certain rule or form, or because they were given to the canonici, that is, those comprehended in the canon or catalogue of their church. When they had occasion to travel into other dioceses or countries, dimissory and recommendatory letters, also letters of peace, and the like, were so many species of canonical letters. Canonical is also an appellation given to those epistles in the New Testament, more frequently called catholic or general epistles. CANONICUM, in a general sense, denotes a tax or tribute. Canonicum is more particularly used in the Greek church for a fee paid by the clergy to bishops, archbishops, and metropolitans, for degrees and promotions. Canonicum also denotes a due of first fruits, paid by the Greek laity to their bishops, or, according to Du Cange, to their priests. The canonicum is affected according to the number of houses or chimneys in a place. The emperor Isaac Comnenus framed a constitution for regulating the canonicum of bishops, which was confirmed by another made in 1086, by his nephew Alexis Comnenas. A village containing thirty fires was to pay for its canonicum one piece of gold, two of silver, one sheep, six bushels of barley, six of wheat flour, six measures of wine, and thirty hens. CANONIST, a person skilled in, or who makes profession of, the study and practice of the canon law. Canonists and civilians are usually combined in the same persons ; and hence the title of juris utriusque doctor, or legum doctor, usually expressed in abbreviature, J. U. D. or LL.D. CANONIZATION, a ceremony in the Romish church, by which persons deceased are ranked in the catalogue of the saints. It succeeds beatification. Before a beatified person is canonized, the qualifications of the candidate are strictly examined into, in consistories held for that purpose ; after which, one of the consistorial advocates, in the presence of the pope and cardinals, pronounces the panegyric of the person who is to be proclaimed as a saint, and gives a particular detail of his life and miracles; which being done, the holy father decrees his canonization, and appoints the day. On the day of canonization the pope officiates in white, and their eminences are dressed in the same colour. St Peter’s church is hung with rich tapestry, upon which the arms of the pope, and of the prince or state requiring the canonization, are embroidered in gold and silver. An infinite number of lights blaze all round the church, which is crowded with pious souls, who wait with devout impatience till the new saint has made his public entry as it were into paradise, that they may offer up their petitions to him without danger of being rejected. CANONRY, the benefice filled by a canon. It differs from a prebend, in that the prebend may subsist without the canonicate, whereas the canonicate is inseparable from the prebend; again, the right of suffrages, and other privileges, are annexed to the canonicate, and not to the prebend. CANOPUS, in Astronomy, a star of the first magnitude, in the rudder of Argo, a constellation of the southern hemisphere. Canopus, in Pagan Mythology, one of the deities of

CAN 95 the ancient Egyptians, and, according to some, the god of Canopus water. It is said that the Chaldeans, who worshipped fire, carried their fancied deity through other countries to Canova. try its powers, in order that, if it obtained the victory over the other gods, it might be acknowledged as the true object of worship; and it having easily subdued the gods of wood, stone, brass, silver, and gold, its priests declared that all gods did it homage. This the priest of Canopus hearing, and finding that the Chaldeans had brought their god to contend with Canopus, they took a large earthen vessel, in which they bored several holes, which they afterwards stopped with wax, and having filled the vessel with water, painted it of several colours, and fitting the head of an idol to it, brought it out in order to contend with the Chaldean deity. The Chaldeans accordingly kindled their fire all round it; but the heat having melted the wax, the water gushed out through the holes and extinguished the fire ; and thus Canopus conquered the god of the Chaldeans. Canopus, or Canobus, according to Strabo, was Menelaus’s pilot, and had a temple erected to him in a town called Canopus, near one of the mouths of the Nile. Canopus, or Canobus, in Ancient Geography, a town of Lower Egypt, on the Mediterranean, a hundred and twenty stadia, or fifteen miles, to the east of Alexandria. CANOPY, in Architecture and Sculpture, a magnificent kind of decoration, serving to cover and crown an altar, throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair, or the like. The word is formed from the barbarous Latin canopeum, of -/Mvoi-iruo'j, a net spread over a bed to keep off the gnats, from a gnat. Canopies are also borne over the head in processions of state, after the manner of umbrellas. The canopy of an altar is more peculiarly called ciborium. The Roman grandees had their canopies, or spread veils, called thensce, over their chairs ; and similar coverings were also placed, in temples, over the statues of their gods. The modern cardinals still retain the use of canopies. CANOS A, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Bari, on the eastern side of the river Ofanto, with 4064 inhabitants. It was the ancient Greek city Canusium. CANOVA, Antonio, one of the greatest sculptors of modern times, was born on the 1st of November 1757, at Passagno, an obscure village situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolano, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps, as they subside into the plains of Treviso. At three years of age Canova was deprived of both parents. Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when the efforts of successful genius had afforded him the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome. The father and grandfather of our artist followed the occupation of stone-cutters; and it is said that their family had for several ages supplied Passagno with members of that profession. As soon as Canova’s hand could hold a pencil, he was initiated into the principles of drawing by his affectionate grandfather Pasino, who was acquainted with the subject. He also possessed some knowledge of architecture, designed well, and showed considerable taste in the execution of ornamental works, lo his art he was attached with fond partiality; and upon his young charge he looked as one who was designed not only to perpetuate the family name, but also the family profession. The object of his hopes and instructions may be said to have done so; but his works were destined to be known far beyond the period of his life, or the circle of his native hills. The early years of Canova were passed in study. The

06 CAN Canova. bias of his mind was to sculpture, and the facilities afforded for the gratification of this predilection in the workshop of his grandfather were eagerly improved. In his ninth year he executed two small shrines of Carrara marble, which are still extant. Soon after this period he appears to have been constantly employed under his grandfather. Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Faliero of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron. Between the younger son, Giuseppe Faliero, and the artist, a friendship commenced, which terminated only with life. From the interest which was excited in this family for Canova, Signor Faliero was induced to receive him under his immediate protection. It has been related by an Italian writer, and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a fortuitous circumstance, the moulding of a lion in butter, for the warm interest which the senator took in his welfare. The anecdote may be true; but it does not appear to rest on authority sufficiently strong to warrant our stating it as authentic. By his kind patron Canova was placed under Bernard!, or, as he is generally called by filiation, Toretto, a sculptor of considerable eminence, who had taken up a temporary residence at Pagnano, a village in the vicinity of the senator’s mansion. This took place whilst he was in his thirteenth year; and with Toretto he continued about two years, making in many respects considerable progress. This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Faliero, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, where he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Toretto. With this master he continued about a year, studying with the utmost assiduity. After the termination of this engagement he began to work on his own account, and received from his patron an order for a group on the subject of Orpheus and Eurydice. The first figure, which represents Eurydice in flames and smoke in the act of leaving the infernal realms, was completed towards the close of his sixteenth year. It was highly esteemed by his patron and friends, and the artist was now considered as qualified to appear before a public tribunal. The kindness of some monks supplied him with his first work-shop, which was the vacant cell of a monastery. Here for nearly four years he laboured with the greatest perseverance and industry. He was also regular in his attendance at the academy, where he carried off several prizes. But he did not confine himself to these exercises alone. He resolved to begin where the art itself began, in the study and imitation of nature. From his contemporaries he could learn nothing, for their style was vicious. From their works, therefore, he reverted to living models, as exhibited in every variety of situation. A large portion of his time was also devoted to anatomy, which science was regarded by him as “ the secret of the art.” He also frequented places of public amusement, where he carefully studied the expressions and attitudes of the performers. Not a day was allowed to pass without his making some visible advances in his profession. He formed a resolution, which was faithfully adhered to for several years, never to close his e}res without producing some design. Whatever was likely to forward his advancement in sculpture, he studied with ardour. On archaiological pursuits he bestowed considerable attention. With ancient and modern history he rendered himself well acquainted, and he also began to acquire several of the continental languages. When we view such industry, inspired and directed by such a genius as that of Canova, it scarcely appears matter of wonder that the result should be a new era in the art.

OVA. Three years had now elapsed without any production Canov; coming from his chisel. He began, therefore, to com- 'w'Y'v plete the group for his patron, and the Orpheus which followed evinced the great advances he had made in his profession. The work was universally applauded, and laid the foundation of his fame. Several groups succeeded this performance, amongst which was that of Daedalus and Icarus, the most celebrated work of his noviciate. The simplicity of style and the faithful imitation of nature which characterized them called forth the warmest admiration. But there was still wanting in his productions that elevation and ideal beauty which he afterwards attained to, and which rather carried nature to its highest perfection than went beyond it. His merits and reputation being now generally recognised, he began to turn his attention from the shores of the Adriatic to the more classic banks of the Tiber, for which he set out at the commencement of his twenty-third year. Previous to his departure for Rome, his friends had applied to the Venetian senate for a pension, to enable him without embarrassment to pursue his studies. The application was ultimately successful. It amounted to three hundred ducats, about sixty pounds per annum, and was limited to three years. Our artist had obtained letters of introduction to the Venetian ambassador, the Cavaliere Zuliani, an enlightened and generous protector of the arts, and was received in the most gracious and hospitable manner. Canova’s arrival in the “ eternal city” marks a new era in his life. It was here he was to perfect himself, by a study of the most splendid relics of antiquity, and to put his talents to the severest test by a competition with the greatest living masters of the art. The result was equal to the highest hopes cherished either by himself or by his friends. The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus vanquishing the Minotaur. The figures are of the heroic size, that is, larger than life. The victorious Theseus is represented as seated on the lifeless body of the monster. The exhaustion which visibly pervades his whole frame proves the terrible nature of the conflict in which he had been engaged, while at the same time it evinces the genius of the sculptor. Simplicity and purity of natural expression had hitherto characterized his style; but with these were now united more exalted conceptions of grandeur and of truth. By those who were capable of appreciating the beauties of the Theseus, it was regarded with rapturous enthusiasm, as worthy of the best days of sculpture in a land where sculpture was unrivalled ; and it formed a noble presage of future glory and yet more splendid achievements. Flis next undertaking was a monument in honour of Clement XIV.; but before he proceeded with it, he deemed it necessary to request permission from the Venetian senate, whose servant he considered himself to be, in consideration of the pension. This he solicited in person, and it was granted in the most handsome manner. He returned immediately to Rome, and opened that studio in the Strada Babbuino, which was soon to be one of the proudest boasts of Italy, and to which the ardent devotees of the art from every nation of Europe were to perform pilgrimage. He spent about two years of unremitting toil in arranging the design and composing the models for the tomb of the pontiff. After these were completed, other two years were employed in finishing the monument, and it was finally opened to public inspection in 1787. Expectation had been highly excited, and never was it more amply gratified. The work, in the opinion of the best judges, stamped the author as the first artist of modern times. After five years of incessant labour, he completed another cenotaph to the memory of Clement XIII. of which it is sufficient praise to say, that it raised still higher the fame of

C A N O V A. 97 iova. the author. Works came now so rapidly from his chisel, the hero, flushed with conquest, displays the head of the v Canova. that it will be impossible to enumerate any but the most “ snaky Gorgon,” whilst the right hand grasps a sword of — conspicuous. Amongst those which belong to the period singular device. By a public decree, this great triumph in question is Psyche with a butterfly, which is placed on of art was placed in one of the stanze of the Vatican, hithe left hand, and held by the wings with the right. This therto reserved only for the most precious works of antibeautiful figure, which is intended as a personification of quity. In 1802, at the personal request of Napoleon, Caman’s immaterial part, is considered as in almost every nova repaired to Paris to model a bust of the first conrespect the most faultless and classical of Canova’s works. sul. The artist was entertained with munificence, and In two different groups, and with opposite expression, the various honours were conferred upon him. The statue, sculptor has represented Cupid with his bride; in the one which is colossal, was not finished till six years after. On they are standing, in the other recumbent, and both are of the fall of the living original, the French king presented superlative excellence. These and other proofs of lofty this statue to the British government, by whom it was afgenius raised his reputation so high, that the most flatter- terwards given to the Duke of Wellington. Palamedes, ing offers were sent him from the Russian court to induce Creugas, and Damoxenus, the combat of Theseus and the him to remove to St Petersburg ; but these were declined. Centaur, and Hercules and Lychas, all displaying great “ Italy,” says he, in writing of the occurrence to a friend, and varied excellence, may close the class of heroic com“ Italy is my country—is the country and native soil of positions, although the catalogue might be swelled by the the arts. I cannot leave it; my infancy was nurtured enumeration of various others, such as Hector and Ajax, here, and if my poor talents can be useful in any other, the statues of Washington, Ferdinand, and others. The they must be of some utility to this ; and ought not hers group of Hercules and Lychas is considered as the most to be preferred to all others ?” Genius never appears so terrible conception of Canova’s mind, and in its peculiar truly great as when it is united with a disinterested love style as scarcely to be excelled. of country. In this respect Canova will ever command Under the second head, namely, compositions of grace admiration. The powers of his mind scarcely surpassed and elegance, the statue of Hebe takes the first place in the virtues of his heart. point of time. Four times has the artist embodied in stone Numerous works were produced during the years 1795- the goddess of youth, and each time with some varia6-7, of which several were repetitions of previous produc- tion. The only material improvement, however, is the tions. It is only necessary to notice the celebrated group substitution of a support more suitable to the simplicity representing the parting of Venus and Adonis. The youth of the art. The invention merits the title of originality, is gazing tenderly upon the goddess. With his left arm he and the figure in each of the statues is, in all its details, in encircles her waist, while his right grasps a hunting spear. expression, attitude, elegance, and delicacy of finish, perShe, on the other hand, by the most endearing yet chaste fect in beauty. The Dancing Nymphs maintain a characcaresses, endeavours to avert his resolution of departing. ter similar to that of the Hebe. The Graces and the VeThis famous production was sent to Naples; and, out of nus are more elevated, as combining dignity with elegance. respect to the artist, the king ordered every tax which The Awakened Nymph is another work of extraordinary attended its importation to be remitted. As a more sub- beauty, a term indeed which may be applied to all his stantial mark of approbation, he decorated the sculptor productions indiscriminately. The mother of Napoleon, with the insignia of the order of the Two Sicilies. The Maria Louisa, to model whom the author made a second French revolution was now extending its ravages over Italy; journey to Paris in 1810, the Princess Esterhazy, and the and the pure and peaceful spirit of Canova, shrinking from muse Polyhymnia, take their place in this class; as do the scenes of contention and blood, sought obscurity and repose ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, and Beain the bosom of his native Passagno. Thither he retired in trice. In these the artist combined reality with fancy; 1798, and continued about a year, principally employed in all are representations of celebrated females, and he has the sister art of painting, in which also he w7as no ordinary endeavoured to realize the glowing descriptions of poesy, proficient. One of his productions in this department of art or the more veracious traits of history, according to his is a picture representing the dead body of the Saviour just own refined conceptions of character. Living models supremoved from the cross, surrounded by the three Marys, plied the contour and the features, but these were kindled the beloved disciple, Joseph of Arimathea, and, somewhat up with the soul of passion and expression by the sculpin the back ground, Nicodemus. Above appears the per- tor’s hand. Belonging to this class of composition the sonification of the Father, with the mystic dove in the most glowing portraiture of female loveliness is the Helen centre of a glory, and surrounded by a circle of cherubs. of Troy. This admirable composition, which was greatly applauded, The cenotaphs and funeral monuments fall next to be he presented to the parochial church of his native place. noticed. Of these the most splendid is the monument to Events in the political world having come to a temporary the Arch-Duchess Maria Christina of Austria, consisting crisis, he returned to Rome; but his health, from ardu- of nine figures. It is considered as a chef-dceuvre in this deous application, having been impaired, he took a journey partment of art. Besides the two for the Roman pontiffs, through a part of Germany, in company with his friend already mentioned, there is one for Alfieri, another for Prince Rezzonica. He returned from his travels much Emo, a Venetian admiral, and a small model of a cenotaph improved, and again commenced his labours with renewed for Nelson, besides a great variety of monumental revigour and enthusiasm. lievos. Canova’s sculptures have been distributed under three The events which marked the life of the artist during heads : 1. Heroic compositions ; 2. Compositions of grace the first fifteen years of the period in which he was enand elegance; and 3. Sepulchral monuments and relievos. gaged on the above-mentioned works, are of so little imIn noticing the works which fall under each of these divi- portance as scarcely to merit notice. His mind was ensions, it will be impossible to maintain a strict chronological tirely absorbed in the labours of his studio, and, with the order, but perhaps a better idea of his productions may exception of his two journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and thus be obtained. Their vast number, however, prevents a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts their being all enumerated. of Italy, he never quitted Rome. In his own words, “ his Soon after his return appeared his Perseus with the statues were the sole proofs of his civil existence.” There head of Medusa. The moment of representation is when was, however, another proof, which modesty forbade him VOL. VI. N

CAN 98 CAN . : Canova is allowed to rank above every other master, Canso Canova. to mention, an ever active benevolence, especially towards | artists. In 1815 he was commissioned by the Pope to from the age of Nicholas of Pisa. He renovated the art superintend the transmission from Paris, of those works in Italy, and brought it back to the standard from which Cantu, of art which had formerly been conveyed there under the it had declined. His style in youth displayed the utmost direction of Napoleon. By his zeal and exertions, for simplicity ; but as he proceeded in his career, he evinced there were many conflicting interests to reconcile, he the true poetic feeling which spiritualizes and exalts nature adjusted the affair in a manner at once creditable to his into ideal beauty and grandeur—that power which give/3 judgment and fortunate for his country. In the autumn to marble features an expression apparently resulting from of this year he gratified a wish he had long entertained, the workings of an inherent and active intelligence; in a of visiting the British metropolis, where he was graciously word, he stamped them with the impress of the soul. His received by the prince regent, and honoured with the finishing was excessively refined, and he had a method of highest tokens of esteem. He returned to Rome in the giving a mellow and soft appearance to the marble, hitherbeginning of 1816, with the ransomed spoils of his coun- to unattempted. He formed his models of the same size try’s genius. Immediately after, he received several marks as the work he designed was intended to be, which was, of distinction : by the hand of the pope himself his name undoubtedly, a great improvement in the art. Of his was inscribed in “ the golden volume of the capitol,” and moral character, a generous and unwearied benevolence he received the title of Marquis of Ischia, with an annual formed the most prominent feature. Of the vast fortune realized by his works, the greater part was distributed in pension of 3000 crowns, about L.625. He now contemplated a great work, a colossal statue of acts of this description. To artists in particular, his hand Religion. The model filled Italy with admiration : the was “ open as day to melting charity.” He established marble was procured, and the chisel of the sculptor ready to prizes for them, and endowed all the academies of Rome. be applied to it, when the jealousy of churchmen as to the The aged and unfortunate were also objects of his peculiar site, or some other cause, deprived the world of the project- solicitude. His titles were numerous. He was enrolled ed work. The mind of Canova was inspired with the warm- amongst the nobility of several states, decorated with variest sense of devotion, and though foiled in this instance, ous orders of knighthood, and associated in the highest he resolved to consecrate a shrine to the cause, at once professional honours. (See the Life of Canova by Memes, worthy of himself and of the religion to which he was devot- one vol.; by Missinini, four vols.; also the Biografia, by ed. In his native village he began to make preparations for the Count Cicognava.) CANSO, or Canceau, an island, cape, and small fisherecting a temple, which was to contain not only the above statue, but other works of his own; and within its precincts ing bank, on the south-east coast of is ova Scotia, about also were to repose the ashes of the founder. Accordingly, in forty leagues east by north of Halifax. ihe island is prosecution of this design, he repaired to Passagno in 1819. small, but has a good harbour. The Gut of Canso forms At a sumptuous entertainment which he gave to his work- the passage from the Atlantic into the Gulf of St Lawmen, there occurred an incident which it is impossible to rence, between Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia. Lat. overlook in any life of Canova, however circumscribed. 45. 20. N. CANSTADT, a city of the circle of the Neckar, in When the festivities of the day had terminated, he requested the shepherdesses and peasant girls of the adja- the kingdom of Wirtemberg. It is surrounded with walls, cent hamlets to pass in review before him, and to each he and contains 384 houses and 3219 inhabitants. Cotton mills made a present, expending on the occasion about L.400. W e are established, and some silks and satins are manufacneed not therefore be surprised, that, a few years after- tured. It has some trade by the navigable river Neckar wards, when the remains of the donor came to be deposit- to the Rhine. CANT, a quaint affected manner of speaking, adapted ed in their last asylum, the grief which the surrounding peasantry evinced was in natural expression so intense and chiefly to the lower orders. Skinner racks his invention for irrepressible, as totally to eclipse all the studied solemnity the origin of this word, which he successively deduces from the German, Flemish, and Saxon tongues. According of more pompous mourning. After the foundation stone of this edifice had been laid, to the general opinion, Cant was originally the proper name Canova returned to Rome; but every succeeding autumn he of a Cameronian preacher in Scotland, who by exercise continued to visit Passagno, in order to direct the workmen, had attained the faculty of talking in the pulpit in such a and encourage them with pecuniary rewards and medals. In tone and dialect as was understood by none but his own the mean time the vast expenditure exhausted his resources, congregation. Since Andrew Cant’s time the word has and compelled him to labour with unceasing assiduity, been extended to signify all sudden exclamations and when age and disease had set their seal upon his frame. whining unmusical tones, especially in praying and preachDuring the period which intervened between commencing ing. But this origin of the w ord has been disputed by operations at Passagno, and his decease, he executed or some; and perhaps the true derivation is from the Latin finished some of his most splendid works. Amongst these cantare, to sing, in which sense cant would be synonywere the group Mars and Venus, the colossal figure of Pius mous with sing-song. Cant is also applied to words and phrases affected by VI., the Pieta, the St John, the recumbent Magdalen, and others of scarcely inferior excellence. The last perfor- particular persons or professions for low ends, and not mance which issued from his hand was a colossal bust authorized by the established language. The difference of his friend the Count Cicognava. In May 1822 he paid between cant and technical seems to be this: the former a visit to Naples, to superintend the construction of wax- is restricted to words introduced out of folly, affectation, moulds for an equestrian statue of Ferdinand. This jour- or imposture; the latter is applied to such as are introney materially injured his health, but he rallied again on duced for the sake of clearness, precision, and significancy. Cant is also used to denote a sale by auction. The his return to Rome. Towards the latter end of the year he paid his annual visit to the place of his birth, when he origin of the word in this sense ’is doubtful. It may be experienced a relapse. He proceeded to Venice, and ex- derived, according to some, from quantum^ how much ; acpired there on the 13th of October 1822, at the age of sixty- cording to others, from cantare, to sing or cry aloud; five. The most distinguished funeral honours were paid to agreeably to which, the Americans sometimes call an auchis remains, which were deposited in the temple at Pas- tion an out-cry. CANT A, a province and government of Peru, bounded sagno on the 25th of the same month.

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CAN 99 3 abria on the north-east and east by Tarma, on the west by the Christian religion against that of Mahommed, under Cantal II "uj Chancay, and on the south by Huarochiri. It is twenty- the name of Christodulus. CANTAL, a department of the south-east part 0f Cantera,r‘ (pta- four leagues in length from north to south, and thirty-five M 'i'ius- jn width from east to west. The territory is mountainous, France, formed out of the ancient province of Upper Aufbeing generally situated in the Cordillera. The pastures, vergne. It is bounded on the north by the department which are rich and extensive, are grazed by large herds Puy de Dome, on the east by the Upper Loire, on the of cattle ; and the lama or Peruvian sheep, with the vicuna south-east by Lozere, on the south by Aveiron, and on the or wild goat, are to be found in great numbers in the west by Lot and Correze. Its extent is 2332 square miles, mountainous parts. The capital, which is of the same or 574,081 hectares. It is divided into four arrondissements, twenty-three cantons, and 270 communes, and conname, is situated in lat. 11. 10. S. CANTABRIA, in Ancient Geography, a district of Tar- tains 250,930 inhabitants. The face of the country is raconensis, on the Oceanus Cantabricus, or Bay of Biscay ; generally mountainous, and the interior is occupied with now Biscay. The inhabitants were famous for their war- volcanoes long since extinguished, consisting ot lava and like character. Dr Wallis seems to make the Cantabrian basalt, some of which are from 5000 to 6000 feet in height. the ancient language of Spain; and it, according to him, The soil is naturally better adapted for pasture than for like the Gaulish, gave way to a kind of broken Latin call- agriculture. The climate is raw and cold, though not uned romance or romansh, which by degrees was refined into healthy; but, on the more elevated spots, the winter is of the Castilian or present Spanish. But we can hardly sup- eight months duration. The animals are the common pose that so large a country, inhabited by such a variety domesticated cattle, sheep, cows, swine, and goats. Some of people, all spoke the same language. The ancient wheat is grown, but more of buck wheat; and potatoes, but Cantabrian, in effect, is still found to subsist in the more especially chestnuts, are the common substitutes for bread barren and mountainous parts of the provinces of Biscay, corn. From the poverty of the soil, great numbers of the Asturias, and Navarre, as far as Bayonne, much as the people repair to the surrounding provinces and to Spain to British, does in Wales; but the people only talk it, while procure employment. There are manufactories of linen in writing they use either the Spanish or French, as they and woollen goods, of leather, paper, thread-lace, and cophappen to live under the one or the other nation. Some per articles of furniture, but all on a very contracted scale. attribute this to a jealousy of foreigners learning the mys- The chief town is Aurillac. CANTARINI, Simon, a famous painter, called the teries of their language, others to a poverty of words and expressions. The Cantabrian does not appear to have any Pesarese, from his being born at Pesaro, was the disciple marked affinity with other languages, except that some of Guido, and copied the manner of his master so happily Spanish words have been adopted in it to express things that it is often difficult to distinguish between their works. the use of which the Biscayans were anciently unacquaint- He died at Verona in 1648. CANTATA, in Music, a song or composition, intermixed with. Its pronunciation is not disagreeable. CANTABRUM, in Antiquity, a large kind of flag used ed with recitatives, airs, and different movements, chiefly by the Roman emperors, distinguished by its peculiar co - intended for a single voice, with a thorough bass, though lour, and bearing on it some word or motto of good omen, sometimes for other instruments. It was first used in Italy, then in France, whence it passed to us. to encourage the soldiers. CANTELEU, a town of the department of the Lower CANTACUZENUS, Johannes, of Constantinople, a celebrated statesman, general, and historian, was born in Seine, in France, near to Rouen, with 2842 inhabitants. that city, and descended of a very ancient and noble family. It is celebrated for its excellent cider. CANTEMIR, Demetrius, son of a prince of Moldavia. He was bred to letters and to arms, and admitted to the highest offices in the state. The emperor Andronicus load- Disappointed in not succeeding his father in that dignity, ed him with wealth and honour, made him generalissimo of which was held under the Ottoman Porte, he went over with his forces, and was desirous of associating him in the go- his army to the Czar Peter the Great, against whom he had vernment, but this he refused. Andronicus dying in 1341, been sent by the Grand Signior. He signalized himself left to Cantacuzenus the care of the empire till his son in the czar’s service, and in the republic of letters by a John Palaeologus, who was then but nine years of age, should Latin history of the origin and decline of the Ottoman be fit to take it upon himself. This trust he faithfully empire. He died in 1723. Cantemir, Antiochus, esteemed the founder of the Rusdischarged, till the empress-dowager and her faction forming a party against him, declared him a traitor. On this sian poetry, was the youngest son of the preceding. Under the principal nobility and the army besought him to ascend the most ingenious professors, whom the czar had invited _ the throne ; and accordingly he was crowned on the 21st to Petersburg, he learned mathematics, physic, history, of May 1342. This was followed by a civil war, which moral philosophy, and polite literature, without neglectlasted five years, when he admitted John as a partner v/ith ing the study of the Holy Scriptures, to which he had a him in the empire, and their union was confirmed by his great inclination. Scarce had he finished his academic giving him his daughter in marriage. Suspicions and en- course, when he printed a Concordance ot the Psalms in mities, however, soon arising, the war broke out again, the Russian language, and was elected member-of the acaand continued till John took Constantinople in 1355. A demy. The affairs of state in which he was soon afterwards few days after, Cantacuzenus, unwilling to continue the engaged did not make him neglect his literary pursuits. effusion of blood, abdicated his share ot the empire, and To render himself useful to his fellow-citizens, he composretiring to a monastery, took the habit of a monk, and the ed his satires, in order to ridicule certain prejudices which name of Joasaphas. His wife also retired to a nunnery, had got footing among them. When only twenty-four years and changed her name of Irene for that ot Eugenia. In this of age he was nominated as minister to the court of Great retirement he lived till the year 1411, when he was upwards Britain, and his dexterity in the management of public of a hundred years of age. Here he wrote a histoiy of affairs was as much admired as his taste for the sciences. his own times, a Latin translation of which, from the Greek He had the same reputation in France, whither he went manuscript, was published by Pontanus at Ingolstadt in in 1738 in quality of minister plenipotentiary; and, soon 1603; and a splendid edition was printed at Paris in 1645, afterwards, he was invested with the character of ambasin three volumes folio, of the original Greek, and the La- sador extraordinary. Thewise and prudentmanner inwhich tin version of Pontanus. He also wrote an apology for he conducted himself during the different revolutions which CAN

CAN He alleges indeed that it was written by King Solomon Cantima. the son of David; but asserts that it was composed at rons the time when that prince, blinded by his concubines, I was sunk in lust and idolatry. This he chiefly infers from ^anton. the general character of vanity and dissoluteness which reigns throughout the Canticles ; in which there is not, according to Whiston, one thought that leads the mind towards religion, but all is worldly and carnal, to say no worse. As to the alleged mystic sense, he asserts that it is without foundation ; and that the book is not cited as canonical by any writer before the destruction of Jerusalem. Mr Whiston will have it to have been taken into the canon between the years seventy-seven and a hundred and twenty-eight, when allegories came into vogue, and the rabbin began to corrupt the text of Scripture. Grotius, Nierembergius, the Dutch divines who criticised F. Simon, Menetrier, Basnage, and some others, seem also to consider the Canticles as a profane composition, on a footing with the love pieces of Catullus or Ovid. But this opinion is refuted by Michaelis, Majus, Witsius, Nat. Alexander, Outrein, Francius, and others. Mr Whiston’s arguments have been particularly considered by Itchener, and also by Dr Gill. R. Akiba finds the book of Canticles more divine than the rest; the whole world, according to this rabbi, is not worth that day when the Canticles was given to Israel; for, whereas all the hagiographers are holy, the Canticles is the holy of holies. CANTIMARONS, Catimarons, or Catamarans, a kind of floats or rafts, used by the inhabitants of the coast of Coromandel to go a fishing in, and to trade along the coast. They are made of three or four small canoes, or trunks of trees dug hollow, and tied together with cacao ropes, with a triangular sail in the middle, made of mats. The persons who manage them are almost half in the water, there being only a place in the middle a little raised, to hold their merchandise ; which last particular is only to be understood of the trading catamarans, and not of those that go a fishing. CANTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a promontory of Britain, literally denoting a headland; giving name to a territory called Cantium, now Kent; and to a people called Cantii, commended for their great humanity and politeness. CANTO denotes a part or division of a poem, answering to what is otherwise called a booh. The word is Italian, and properly signifies song. Tasso, Ariosto, and several other Italians, have divided their longer or heroic poems into cantos. In imitation of them, Scarron has also divided his Gigantomachia, and Boileau his Lutrin, into chants or songs. The like usage has been adopted by some English writers, as Butler, who divides his Hudibras, and Dr Garth his Dispensary, into cantos. A modern translator of part of Virgil’s fEneidhRS even subdivided a book of Virgil into several cantos. Canto, in the Italian music, signifies a song; hence canto simplice is where all the notes or figures are equal, and called also canto sermo ; while canto figurato is where the figures are unequal, and express different motions. Canto also signifies the treble part of a song; hence canto concertante, the treble of the little chorus, and canto repieno, the treble of the grand chorus, or that which sings only now and then in particular places. Canto signifies the first treble, unless some other word be added to it, as secondo ; in which case it denotes the second treble. CANTON denotes a small district or country constituting a distinct government. Such are the cantons of Switzerland. Canton, Quang-tong, or Koanton, one of the southern provinces of China, bounded on the north-east by Fokien, on the north by Kiang-si, on the west by Quang-si and

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100 CAN Canter- happened in Russia during his absence, gained him the bury confidence and esteem of three successive princes. He of a dropsy, at Paris, in 1744, aged forty-four. BeCanticles. died sides the pieces already mentioned, he wrote, 1. Some Fables and Odes ; 2. A translation of Horace’s Epistles into Russian verse ; 3. A prose translation of Fontenelle’s Plurality of Worlds; and, 4. Algarotti’s Dialogues on Sight. The Abbe Guasco has written his life in French, and translated his satires into that language. CANTERBURY, a city in the hundred of Bridge and Petham, in the county of Kent, fifty-five and a half miles from London. It is the metropolitan see of all England. The situation is fine, in a valley surrounded by hills of easy elevation, and watered by the river Stour, whose various branches form between them several islands, on one of which the city has been built. The streets are somewhat narrow, and the houses in general neither large nor modern, except some which have been recently erected in the suburbs. The chief object of attraction is the magnificent cathedral, with a fine choir, an altar-piece designed by Sir James Burrough, a most remarkable painted window, and the shrine of St Thomas a Becket. It was begun in 1174, and not finished till the reign of Henry V. Under the cathedral is a church for French Protestants, a colony of whom hereafter settled the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and established the silk manufacture, which, though it has declined, still continues, and is the only kind of fabric of the -city. The chief trade consists in corn and hops, which ax e shipped at Whitstable for the London market. Besides the cathedral, there are nine churches. There are two markets weekly, on Wednesday and Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1811 to 10,200, in 1821 to 12,745, and in 1831 to 14,463. CANTERUS, William, an eminent linguist and philologer, who was born at Utrecht in 1541. He studied at Louvain and Paris, and gave surprising proofs of his progress in Greek and Latin literature. He afterwards visited the several universities of Germany and Italy, and died at Louvain in 1575, aged thirty-three. He understood six languages besides that of his native country; and, notwithstanding his dying so young, wrote several philological and critical works, among which are, Notce, Scholce, Emendaiiones, et Explicationes, in Euripidem, Sophoclem, Eschylum, Ciceronem, Propertium, Ausonium, &c. and many translations of Greek authors. CANTHARIDES, in the Materia Medica, flies which are employed to produce blisters on the skin. CANTICLES, a canonical book of the Old Testament, otherwise called the Song of Solomon, and by the Jews the Cdnticum Canticorum, or Song of Songs. The book of Canticles is usually supposed to be an epithalamium composed by Solomon on occasion of his marriage with the king of Egypt’s daughter; but those who penetrate further into the mystery find in it the marriage of Jesus Christ with human nature, the church, and good men. On this principle the Canticles is held to be a continued allegory, in which, under the terms of a common wedding, a divine and spiritual marriage is expressed. This song contains the adventures of seven days and seven nights, the exact time allowed for the celebration of marriage among the Hebrews. The Jews themselves, apprehending the book liable to be understood in a gross and carnal manner, prohibited the reading of it before the age of thirty; and the same usage anciently obtained in the Christian church. Among the ancients, Theodore Mopsuetanus rejected the book of Canticles as not divine. Divers rabbin have also questioned its being written by inspiration. It is alleged that the name of God is not once found in it. Mr Whiston has a discourse expressly to prove that the Canticles is not a sacred book of the Old Testament.

CANTON. 101 the kingdom of Tonking, and everywhere else by the sea. a broad parade extends along the river in front of the Canton, The country is diversified with hills and plains, and the factories, whither the European merchants, commanders, soil is in general so fertile that it produces two crops an- and officers of ships resort to enjoy the cool of the evening. The British factory far surpasses all others in elenually. See China. Canton, a large commercial and populous city of Chi- gance and extent. It has a large verandah, reaching na, in the province of Quang-tong, situated on the east- nearly down to the water’s edge, raised on handsome pilern bank of the Pekiang river, which at Canton is some- lars, and paved with marble, and commanding an extenwhat broader than the Thames at London Bridge, and is sive view along the river banks. There are spacious navigable 300 miles farther into the interior. It has an warehouses in the neighbourhood for the reception of additional course of eighty miles to the sea, near its junc- goods, and dwellings of the Chinese, which are hired out tion with which it takes among foreigners the name of to merchants who visit Canton. For the sp'ace of four or Bocca Tigris, or the mouth of the Tigris, from the ap- five miles opposite Canton boats and vessels are ranged pearance of one of the islands at its entrance. The town parallel to each other in such close order that it resemstretches about five miles along the side of the river, and bles a floating city; and these marine dwellings are ocnearly three miles in an opposite direction. It is defend- cupied by numerous families, who reside almost constanted towards the water by two high walls, having cannon ly on the water. In the middle of the river lie the Chimounted, and two strong castles built on two islands in nese junks, which trade to the eastern islands and Batathe river; on the land side it has a strong wall and three via, and which are moored head and stern, some of them forts. The wall of the city is about five miles in circum- of the burden of 600, and even of 1000 tons. ference, with a broad and deep ditch close to it, and seCanton, from the number and size of the vessels in the veral gates, within each of which is a guard-house ; and river, the variety and decorations of the boats, the superior no European is permitted, without the order of a mandarin, architecture of the European factories, and the general to enter the Tartar city, all foreigners being confined en- bustle of a numerous and busy population, has all the aptirely to the suburbs. With a view to defence, however, pearance of a great commercial city; and Mr Ellis1 exthese fortifications would be totally unavailing; and their presses his belief that “ in the wealth of the inhabitants only utility consists in preventing the intrusion of stran- at large, the skill of the artificers, and the variety of the gers. The Chinese portion of the city, in its building and manufactures, it yields not, with the exception of the capiexterior appearance, entirely resembles the suburbs; and tal, to any city in the empire.” The suburbs are frequentin these the streets are long, straight, and very narrow, ed by foreigners from all parts of the world; and from some of the principal not exceeding fifteen or twenty feet their various languages, dresses, and deportment, a stranger in breadth ; but they are clean, and well paved with little would be at a loss to say to which nation the town belonground stones, and flagged close to the sides of the houses, ed. Canton carries on a very extensive commerce, and, which are in general small, seldom consisting of more with the exception of the port of Amoy, in the province of than two stories, the lower story serving as a shop in which Fokien, to which the Spaniards have still the privilege of goods are exhibited for sale, and the rest of the house, trading, though they make no use of it, is the only port in with the court behind, being used as a warehouse. Par- the Chinese dominions which is open to the ships of Euroticular streets are allotted for the supply of strangers, peans. According to the policy of the Chinese government, others to particular classes of artizans. The principal it is only a limited number of merchants, who are called the street appropriated to Europeans is denominated China hong or security merchants, that are allowed to trade with Street. Here are to be found the productions of every foreigners. Their number formerly amounted to eight, quarter of the globe; and the merchants are in general and sometimes to twelve; but from bankruptcies among extremely attentive and civil. The Chinese are remark- them, they are now reduced to seven.2 They are comably expert men of business, and of the most assiduous monly men of large property, and are famed for integrity habits, and one of them is always seen sitting on his coun- in their transactions. All foreign cargoes pass through ter, and using every effort to attract the attention of the the hands of these merchants, and by them also the return British seamen, who are in the habit of frequenting this cargoes are furnished. They become security for the quarter of Canton. They have an English name painted payment of duties, and it is treason for any other meron the outside of their shops, besides a number of adver- chant to engage in the trade with foreigners. This severe tisements composed for them by the sailors in their pecu- law, however, it appears, has from time immemorial been liar idiom. They contrive in this manner to draw the sea- evaded ; for other merchants, called “ outside merchants,” men into their shops, and occasionally to impose upon who carry on their transactions outside of the harbour of them by their specious manners and command of temper. Canton, or shopmen, are in the practice of dealing with Ihe factories of the different European powers who are foreigners, either through the medium of the hong merpermitted to trade here extend a considerable distance chants, under whose pass the goods are imported or exalong the banks of the river, fronting the city at about ported, or clandestinely; and more recently the trade has a hundred yards from the water. They consist of large been sanctioned by the Chinese authorities. In 1828 a and handsome houses, on which are hoisted the respec- proclamation was issued, specifying a list of twenty-four tive flags of the different nations. These factories are articles of export, in which alone the hongs were to deal; named by the Chinese, hongs, and resemble long courts and an additional list of fifty-three articles of import, without a thoroughfare, which generally contain four or which were left free to all other merchants.3 A great confive separate houses. They are built on a fine quay, and traband trade is besides carried on in Canton, or among the 1 See Journal of an Embassy to China. 1 3 Minutes of Evidence on the Affairs of the East India Company, before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, 1830, p. 00. We subjoin these lists. List of the twenty-four articles of export, confined to the hongs.—All sorts of teas, raw silk, silk prepared for weaving, Canton raw silk, all sorts of cloth, native cassia, cassia buds, sugar candy, sugar, tutenague, alum, cloves, nutmeg or mace, quicksilver, China camphor, rhubarb, galangal, China root, vermillion, gamboge, damar, star anniseed, pearl shells, cochineal. List of the fifty-three articles of import.—Worleys, Dutch camlets, long ells, broad cloth, cuttings of cloth, sorts of camlets, florentines, ginseng, sandal-wood, birds’ nests, cloves, nutmegs, putchuck, olibanum, Malay camphor, elephants’ teeth, pepper, foreign tin, lead, copper, steel, cotton, rattans, betel nut, smalts, Prussian blue, biche de mer, fish maws, sharks’ fins, materials for glass, ebony, sapan wood, cochineal, gum kine, myrrh, physic, assafbetida, physic oil, quicksilver, foreign iron, wax, cutch, pearl shells, sago, undressed nests, flints, borax, amber, gold and silver thread, all sorts of skins, mace. -o i)< ;0

CANTON. 102 The imports from Bombay and the Malabar coast Canta Canton. islands at the mouth of the river, often under the eye of &c. consist chiefly of cotton, pepper, sandal wood, putchuck, the' custom-house officers, who are either bribed, or who shai'ks’ fins, olibanum, elephants’ teeth, rhinoceros horns, have not a sufficient force to put it down. 1 he inconsi- pearls, cornelians, and beads. With the eastern islands, derable marine force possessed by the Chinese is totally namely the Philippines, the Soo-loo islands, Celebes, the inadequate to check the contraband trade m opium. Moluccas, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Singapore, the east coast Canton is about fifteen miles above Whampoa, and in of the Malayan peninsula, Siam, Cochin-China, Cambodia, this distance are five custom-houses or chops where boats Tonquin, and Japan, Canton carries on trade by means are examined. There is a custom-house officer named the of junks ; and the imports from these countiies are tin, hoppo, whose business it is to regulate the duties which ivory, pepper, betel nut, rattans, sea-slug or biche de mer, are paid by the hong merchant, the importer remaining a variety of drugs, edible bird-nests, a favouiite luxury at entirely ignorant of their amount. Accounts are kept m the Chinese tables, spices, &c. The principal articles imtales, mace, candarines, and cashten cash being one can- ported by the East India Company are woollen clothes, darine, ten candarines one mace, ten mace one tale, which long ells, camlets, lead, tin, and iron ; cotton from Bengal, last is converted into English money at 6s. bd., though it is Madras, and Bombay. The following is a statement of intrinsically worth only 6s. There is but one kind of G n- the British trade to and from Canton in 1828 ; first, of the nese money called cash, which is of base metal, cast, not Company’s trade ; and secondly, of the piivate trade . coined, and very brittle. It is of small value, and varies accordingly in the market from 750 to 1000 cash for a tale. IMPORTS. Its chief use is in making small payments among the lower Company's Trade. classes. Spanish and other silver coins are current, and yards 431,816 are estimated by their weight; every merchant carrying Broad cloth pieces 100,060 scales and weights with him. All the dollars that pass Long ells 6,000 through the hands of the hong merchants bear their stamp, Worleys 4,700 and when they lose their weight in the course of circula- Camlets ^ 15 tion they are cut in pieces for small change. The duties Mohair camlets 15,300 are paid to government in sycee, or pure silver, which is British calicoes 71 taken by weight. In delivering a cargo, English weights Blankets and scarfs peculs 30,261 and scales are used, which are afterwards reduced to British iron Chinese catties and peculs. A pecul weighs 1331 pounds Lead 30,246 English, and a catty 11 pound. Gold and silver are also Cottons 176,206 weighed by the tale and catty, 100 tales being reckoned Sandal wood billets 32,654 Dollars. 4,518,957 L.901,791 equal to 120 ounces 16 pennyweights troy. All goods are sold by weight in China, even articles ot food, such as fowls, hogs, and the like. Private Trade. The foreign trade of Canton is very extensive ; but the great article of export is tea, the demand for which, in On private account, cotton (chiefly from Calcutta and Bombay), Europe, has been increasing for more than a century past. to the amount of 3,480,083 This article is monopolized in Britain by the East India Company; and from their accounts it appears that they Opium smuggled to the amount of 11,243,496 import annually into this country about thirty millions of Other articles, such as pepper, rattans, broad cloth, to the lbs. From papers laid before parliament, their annual amount of 34,467 dollars, cotsales of tea bring a return of between two and three milton goods 66,487, tin 60,380, lions sterling, though the article is burdened, in addition to iron 10,470, and lead 12,504... 1,122,064 the exorbitant price charged by the Company, with the enormous duty of 96 per cent, on all teas under two shil15,845,643 3,169,128 lings per lb. and of 100 per cent, on all above that price. We have no exact data for estimating the total quantity of tea exported from Canton. The quantity taken away EXPORTS. by the Americans amounted, on an average of six years Company's Trade. from the year 1827, to 11,066,666 lbs. Tea is not very 8,765,165 1,753.033 generally used on the Continent ol Europe. The annual Teas on account of Company importation of tea into Holland, on an average of ten years, Private Trade. was 14,814 chests.1 In France it is by no means in comPrivate account 692,767 mon use; and, estimating the consumption of the Continent at seven or eight millions of pounds, the total amount Raw silk, Nankin, 825,300 dollars Canton, 319,920 of tea exported from Canton may be stated at about fifty 1,145,220 millions of pounds. The other articles of export are China Nankeen cloth 649,898 ware, gold in bars, sugar, sugar candy, rhubarb, China root, snake root, sarsaparilla, leather, tutenague, Japan copper, Sugar candy 113,040 dollars, soft sugar 204,834, wrought silk, varnished and lacquered ware, drugs, leaf gold, utensils silk piece-goods, crapes, scarfs, of white and red copper, cast iron, raw and wrought silk, 200,925, &c 1,074,236 thread, nankeens, mother of pearl, gamboge, quicksilver, alum, dammer red lead, vermillion, furniture, toys, a great Dollars, Sycee and Peruvian silver, 6,094,646 8,964,00u variety of drugs, and dollars of sycee or pure silver, and 500,000 500,000 also of Peruvian silver. The Canton junks bring to Sin- Disbursements on ships gapore coarse earthenware for the use of the Chinese set10,156,767 L.2,031,353 tlers, some raw silk, nankeens, tobacco, sacrificial paper, 1 2

See Evidence of C. Marjoribanks, Esq. given before the Select Committee, 18th February 1830. See Parliamentary Papers relating to the Trade and Finances of India.

]03 CAN T O N. to twenty-three broad; and they pay seven tales, one mace, Canton, nton. From this statement it appears, that the extent of the -w' private trade, both to and from Canton, greatly exceeds four candarines, and two cash. The third rates, which that of the East India Company, notwithstanding the ad- are sixty-five to seventy-one cubits, and from twenty to vantage of the monopoly of tea; the imports of the Com- twenty-two broad, pay five tales. Ships are besides liable pany only amounting in value to L.901,791, and those of to the kumshaw, which is an imposition under the name the private trader, including the contraband trade in opium, of a present to the great mandarins, and which is now to L.3,169,128; and the exports by the Company to regularly claimed along with all the other port-dues: on U ,753,033, while those of the private trader exceed two British vessels it is 1950 tales. The duties on ships of the smallest class amount on an average to about 4000 millions. The Americans carry on an extensive trade with Can- dollars, and ships of larger dimensions do not pay a great ton, which appears to fluctuate greatly, though it has on deal more. Small country ships frequently lie off about the whole been decidedly on the increase since its com- Dinting Fora, or Large Bay, until some of the large China mencement, about the year 1785. Inl826-7, owing to over- ships from Europe come in sight, when they shift their trading, the American merchants engaged in this trade cargoes on board of them, which are then usually carried sustained heavy losses, and a serious stagnation followed, up to Canton for one per cent.; and in this manner the which, however, was not of long duration, the exports duties, customs, and measurement of the ship, are saved, having increased the following year to nearly their ave- as well as the emperor’s present. The establishment of the East India Company at Canrage amount. We subjoin, from parliamentary papers, the following account of the American trade to Canton at ton consists of twelve supercargoes and twelve writers, who transact the Company’s business with the hong merdifferent periods: Amount of Amount of chants. They are politically the representatives of the BriNo. of Ships employed. Imports. Exports. tish authority at Canton. They are paid by a double com1804)-5 34 L.800,058 L.864,450 mission of two per cent, on the price of the goods import18089 8 181,800 ed107,966 into Canton by the Company, and on the price of tea at 180910 37 1,292,535 the Company’s 1,285,875 sales in London ; and three per cent, com1818-19 47 2,220,121 2,037,848 mission defrays the whole annual expense of the establish1825-26 42 1,749,667 2,013,651 ment, amounting to about L. 150,000. The writers have 1827-28 20 1,403,726 1,475,983 a fixed salary and a free table, and they succeed by roThe American imports into Canton are chiefly bullion; tation to the situations of supercargoes, who have also a but furs, opium, and ginseng, which is not esteemed by free table, and annually divide among them, in shares prothe Chinese equal to that which they procure from Tar- portioned to their seniority, a sum of from L.50,000 to tary, and of which the emperor has a monopoly, are also L.80,000 sterling. The three senior supercargoes constiimported; and within these twelve or thirteen years they tute the select committee, the chief of which has genehave carried out British woollen manufactures and cotton rally an income of L.8000 per annum ; the second and stuffs, iron, copper, quicksilver, cochineal, opium, linens, third members L.7100 ; and the income of the junior memwatches, and tin plates ; and it is singular, nay a complete bers declines in a graduated proportion to L.1500 per anillustration of the nature of monopoly, that at the time the num. They have besides a free house and table, and their export of woollens by the East India Company was attend- services given in return are not certainly laborious in proed with loss, and had in consequence fallen off, private portion. Their duty is to reside four months of the year traders exported these articles with a profit, and have con- at Canton, during the season when they have to transact business with the hong merchants ; after which they resequently continued the trade. The intercourse carried on with Canton by the other tire to Macao for the rest of the year, having little or no nations of Europe, namely, the Portuguese, the Spaniards, occupation, and no society except among themselves. It French, Swedes, Danes, and Dutch, is inconsiderable and is to pay for such expensive establishments, and for other fluctuating; and is not nearly equal to that of the British modes of wasteful management, as the useless size and cost of their ships, and their extravagant outfit, that the or the Americans. The Chinese are, according to all accounts, an indus- people of Great Britain are taxed in the monopoly price of trious and trading people ; and ready on every occasion, as tea, an article in universal use, and now considered as a far as they can, to counteract the barbarous and anti-com- necessary, and by no means therefore a fit subject for an mercial spirit of the government. All the different traders exorbitant tax. Provisions and refreshments of all sorts are abundant at who have frequented the port of Canton agree that great facilities are given for the dispatch of business, and that Canton, and in general are excellent in quality and mono trader has the least difficulty in disposing of his goods, derate in price. It is a singular fact, that the Chinese and in procuring a return cargo. There are certain port make no use of milk, either in its natural state, or in the duties to which all vessels are liable, in proportion to the form of butter or cheese. Among the delicacies of a Chinese measurement of its tonnage, which is from the Chinese market, are to be seen horse-flesh, dogs, cats, centre of the fore mast to the centre of the mizzen mast hawks, owls, and edible bird-nests, which are so much for the length, and close abaft the main mast from the sought after that they sell for their weight in silver. The outside, taking the extreme, for the breadth. The length Chinese, however, who are settled in Batavia and Singais then multiplied by the breadth, and divided by ten, pore show no aversion to European luxuries ; and are parwhich is their mode of ascertaining the mensuration of a ticularly fond of spirits and wine. The business at Canship. At the custom-house ships are classed under three ton is generally transacted in a jargon of broken English, denominations, namely, first, second, and third rates, the Chinese being extremely ready in acquiring such a which last rate must be paid by all ships, however small, smattering of English words as to render themselves inas there is no lower rate ; and in like manner no higher rate telligible ; and the lower classes of them are frequently is ever paid on any ship of the first class, however large. hired as servants by the Europeans. The intercourse between China and Europe by the way The first rates are seventy-four cubits long and twentythree broad; and they pay per cubit seven tales, seven of the Cape of Good Hope began in 1517, when Emanuel, mace, seven candarines, and seven cash. The second are king of Portugal, sent a fleet of eight ships, with an ambasseventy-one to seventy-four cubits, and from twenty-two sador, who was conveyed to Pekin, and who obtained the

104 C, A N CAN Canton, sanction of the emperor to establish a trade at Canton. It and our author, who was one of the first to repeat and to Cantor was in 1596, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, that the pursue the experiment, found his assiduity and attention ''—’Yv English first attempted with two ships to open an inter- rewarded by many valuable discoveries. Towards the end course with China; but they were lost in the outward of 1749 he was concerned with his friend, Mr Benjamin voyage. About 1634 several English ships visited Can- Robins, in making experiments in order to determine to ton ; but a misunderstanding having occurred with the what height rockets may be made to ascend, and at what Chinese authorities, by the treachery of the Portuguese, distance their light may be seen. In 1750 was read at a rupture and a battle took place, and it was with diffi- the Royal Society Mr Canton’s “ method of making articulty that this misunderstanding was rectified. China was ficial Magnets, without the use of, and yet far superior to, again visited in 1673 by an English ship that was refused any natural ones.” This paper procured him the honour of admission into Japan. In 1677 a factory was established being elected a member of the society, and the present of at Amoy; but in 1680 the factory was destroyed by an ir- their gold medal. The same year he was complimented ruption of the Tartars, and it was not till 1685 that the em- with the degree of M. A. by the University of Aberdeen, peror permitted any trade with the Europeans. Upon the and in 1751 he was chosen one of the council of the Royal union of the two East India Companies in London, an im- Society. In 1752 Mr Canton was so fortunate as to be the first perial edict was issued, restricting the European commerce to the port of Canton. Tea was first imported about the person in England who, by attracting the electric fire from year 1667. The commerce with Canton has in the course the clouds during a thunder storm, verified Dr Franklin’s of the last century progressively increased, though it has hypothesis of the similarity of lightning and electricity. occasionally met with interruptions ; as in 1784, and in Next year his paper entitled “ Electrical Experiments, 1801 when two of the Chinese were killed by shots from with an attempt to account for their several phenomena,” British vessels; and in 1806, when Macao was occupied was read at the Royal Society. In the same paper Mr by British troops. At that time the trade was stopped ; Canton mentioned his having discovered, by a great numbut the troops being withdrawn, harmony was restored, ber of experiments, that some clouds were in a positive, and the trade placed on its former footing. Disagree- and some in a negative, state of electricity. Dr Franklin, ments have also occasionally taken place between the se- much about the same time, made a similar discovery in lect committee and the Chinese functionaries ; but no America. This circumstance, together with our author’s material interruption to the trade has ever arisen from constant defence of the doctor’s hypothesis, induced that this source. The Europeans in Canton know little of the excellent philosopher, immediately on his arrival in Enginterior, being rigidly excluded from all intercourse with land, to pay Mr Canton a visit, and gave rise to a friendthe inhabitants. A great number of troops are said to ship which ever afterwards continued without interruption be quartered in the province of Canton, as a precaution or diminution. In the Lady’s Diary for 1756 our author anagainst any danger from the great influx of foreigners. The swered the prize question that had been proposed in the sea-coast has been so much infested with pirates, as to preceding year. The question was, “ how can what we threaten the almost total extinction of the Chinese coast- call the shooting of stars be best accounted for ; what is ing trade. No correct estimate of the population of Can- the substance of this phenomenon ; and in what state of the ton has ever been obtained ; but it is known to be very atmosphere doth it most frequently show itself?” and the great, probably equal to Calcutta, or any other of the great solution, though anonymous, proved so satisfactory to his cities of the East. Long. 113. 14. E. Eat. 23. 7. N. (Mil- friend, Mr Thomas Simpson, who then conducted that burn’s Oriental Commerce; Barrow’s Travels in China ; work, that he sent Mr Canton the prize, accompanied Ellis’s Journal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to with a note, in which he said, he was sure that he was not China ; Staunton’s Embassy to China ; Hamilton’s East mistaken in the author of it, as no one besides, that he knew of, could have answered the question. Our philoIndia Gazetteer.) (f.) Canton, John, an ingenious natural philosopher, was sopher’s next communication to the public was a letter born at Stroud, in Gloucestershire, in 1718. Among those in the “ Gentleman’s Magazine for September 1759,” on with whom he became acquainted in early life was Dr the electrical properties of the tourmalin, in which the Henry Miles of Tooting, a learned and respectable mem- laws of that wonderful stone are laid down in a very conber of the Royal Society, and of approved eminence in cise and elegant manner. On the 13th December, in the natural knowledge. This gentleman perceiving that Mr same year, was read at the Royal Society, “ An attempt to Canton possessed abilities too promising to be confined account for the regular diurnal variation of the Horizontal within the narrow limits of a country town, prevailed on Magnetic Needle ; and also for its irregular variation at his father to permit him to go to London. According- the time of an Aurora Borealis.” A complete year’s obly he arrived at the metropolis in March 1737, and re- servations of the diurnal variations of the needle are annexsided with Dr Miles at Tooting till the 6th of May fol- ed to the paper. On the 5th November 1761, our author lowing, when he articled himself for the term of five communicated to the Royal Society an account of the years as a clerk to Mr Samuel Watkins, master of the Transit of Venus, 6th June 1761, observed in Spital Square. academy in Spital Square. In this situation his inge- M. Canton’s next communication to the Society was a letnuity, diligence, and good conduct were so well displayed, ter addressed to Dr Benjamin Franklin, and read in Februthat on the expiration of his clerkship in May 1742 he ary 1762, containing some remarks on Mr Delaval’s elecwas taken into partnership with Mr Watkins for three trical experiments. On the 16th December in the same years; which gentleman he afterwards succeeded in Spi- year another curious addition was made by him to philosotal Square, and there continued during his whole life. In phical knowledge, in a paper entitled “ Experiments to 1744 he married Penelope, the eldest daughter of Mr prove that water is not incompressible.” These experiThomas Colbrooke, and niece to James Colbrooke, Esq. ments are a complete refutation of the famous Florentine exbanker in London. periments, which so many philosophers have mentioned as Towards the end of 1745, electricity, which seems early a proof of the incompressibility of water. On St Andrew’s to have engaged Mr Canton’s notice, received a very capi- day 1763 our author was for the third time elected one of tal improvement by the discovery of the Leyden phial. the council of the Royal Society; and, on the 8th November This event turned the thoughts of most of the philo- in the following year, were read before that learned body sophers of Europe to that branch of natural philosophy; his further “ Experiments and observations on the com-

CAN oning pressibility of water and some other fluids.” The esta|| blishment of this fact, in opposition to the received opinvass. nion, formed on the hasty decision of the Florentine Acaflemy, was thought to be deserving of the society’s gold medal. It was accordingly moved for in the council of 1764; and after several invidious delays, which terminated much to the honour of Mr Canton, it was presented to him on the 30th November 1766. The next communication of our ingenious author to the Royal Society was made in December 1763, being “ An easy method of making a phosphorus that will imbibe and emit light like the Bolognian stone ; with experiments and observations.” When he first showed to Dr Franklin the instantaneous light acquired by some of this phosphorus from the near discharge of an electrified bottle, the doctor immediately exclaimed, “ And God said, let there be light, and there was light.” The dean and chapter of St Paul’s having, in a letter to the president, dated 5th March 1769, requested the opinions of the Royal Society relative to the best and most effectual method of fixing electrical conductors to preserve that cathedral from damage by lightning, Mr Canton was one of the committee appointed to take the letter into consideration, and to report their opinion upon it. The gentlemen joined with him in this business were, Dr Watson, Dr Franklin, Mr Delaval, and Mr Wilson. Their report was made on the 8th of June following, and the method recommended by them has been carried into execution. The last paper of our author’s which was read before the Royal Society was on the 21st December 1769, and contained “ Experiments to prove that the Luminousness of the Sea arises from the putrefaction of its animal substances.” In the account now given of his communications to the public, we have chiefly confined ourselves to such as were the most important, and which threw new and unexpected light on various objects in the philosophical world. Besides these, he wrote a number of papers both in earlier and in later life, which appeared in several publications, and particularly in the Gentleman’s Magazine. The close and sedentary life of Mr Canton, arising from an unremitted attention to the duties of his profession, and to the prosecution of his philosophical inquiries and experiments, probably contributed to shorten his days. The disorder into which he fell, and which carried him off, was a dropsy. His death happened on the 22d of March 1772, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. CANTONING, in the military art, is the allotting distinct and separate quarters to each regiment; the town where they are quartered being divided into as many cantons as there are regiments. CANTRED, or Cantreth, signifies a hundred villages. It is a British word, compounded of the adjective cant, meaning hundred; and tref, a towm or village. In Wales some of the counties are divided into cantreds, as in England into hundreds. CANTYRE, from Cantierre, signifying a “ headland,” the southern division of the county of Argyle in Scotland. Mull of Cantyre, the south cape or promontory of the peninsula. CANVASS, a very clear unbleached cloth, of hemp or flax, wove regularly in little squares. It is used for working tapestry with the needle, by passing the threads of gold, silver, silk, or wool, through the intervals or squares. Canvass is also a coarse cloth of hemp, unbleached, and somewhat clear, which serves to cover women’s stays, to stiffen men’s clothes, and also to make some other wearing apparel. Canvass is also used among the French for the model or first words on which an air or piece of music is composed, and given to a poet to regulate and finish. The VOL. VI.

CAN 105 canvass of a song contains certain notes of the composer, Canute, which show the poet the measure of the verses he is to make. Thus Du Lot says, he has canvass for ten sonnets against the Muses. Canvass is also the name of a cloth made of hemp, and used for ships’ sails.* Canvass, among painters, is the cloth on which they usually draw their pictures. The canvass being smoothed over with a slick stone, then sized, and afterwards whited over, makes what the painters call their primeo cloth, on which they draw their first sketches with coal or chalk, and afterwards finish with colours. CANUSIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Apulia, on the right or south side of the Aufidus, to the west of Cannae, whither the Romans fled after the defeat sustained there. It was famous for its red shining wool, whence those who wore clothes made of it were called Canusinati. Now called Canosa. Canute, the first Danish king of England after Ironside. He married Emma, widow of King Ethelred, and put to death several persons of quality who stood in his way to the crown. Having thus settled his power in England, he made a voyage to his other kingdom of Denmark, in order to resist the attacks of the king of Sweden; and he carried along with him a great body of the English under the command of the Earl of Godwin. This nobleman had there an opportunity of performing a service by which he both reconciled the king’s mind to the English nation, and, gaining to himself the friendship of his sovereign, laid the foundation of that immense fortune which he acquired to his family. He was stationed next to the Swedish camp; and observing a favourable opportunity, which he was obliged suddenly to seize, he attacked the enemy in the night, drove them suddenly from their trenches, threw them into disorder, pursued his advantage, and obtained a decisive victory over them. Next morning, Canute, seeing the English camp entirely abandoned, imagined that these disaffected troops had deserted to the enemy ; but he was agreeably surprised to learn that they were at that time engaged in pursuit of the discomfited Swedes. Fie was so pleased with this success, and the manner of obtaining it, that he bestowed his daughter in marriage upon Godwin, and treated him ever after with the most entire confidence and regard. In another voyage which he afterwards made to Denmark, Canute attacked Norway, and expelled the just but unwarlike Olaus from his kingdom, of which he kept possession till the death of that prince. He had now by his conquests and valour attained the utmost height ot his ambition, and having leisure from wars and intrigues, he felt the unsatisfactory nature of all human enjoyments; and equally weary of the glory and turmoils of this life, he began to cast his view towards that future existence, which it is so natural for the human mind, whether satiated by prosperity or disgusted with adversity, to make the object of its attention. Unfortunately the spirit which prevailed in that age gave a wrong direction to his devotion ; and, instead of making atonement to those whom he had formerly injured by his acts of violence, he entirely employed himself in those exercises of piety which the monks represented as most meritorious. He built churches, he endowed monasteries, he enriched ecclesiastics, and bestowed revenues for the support of chantries at Assington and other places, where he appointed prayers to be said for the souls of those who had there fallen in battle against him. He even undertook a pilgrimage to Rome, where he sojourned a considerable time; and, besides obtaining from the pope some privileges for the English school erected there, he engaged all the princes through whose dominions he was obliged to pass to deo

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liquor contained in them may be squirted through the Caout. sist from those heavy impositions and tolls which they reeds or pipes by pressure. One of these filled with water chouc, were accustomed to exact from the English pilgrims, by is always presented to each of the guests at their enter- ' J— this spirit of devotion, no less than by his equitable and tainments, who never fails to make use of it before eating. politic administration, he gained in a good measure the at- This whimsical custom led the Portuguese in that counfections of his subjects. try to call the tree that produced the resin pao di xirrinCanute, who was the greatest and most powerful prince ga ; and hence the name of seringat is given both to the of his time, being sovereign of Denmark and Norway as well tree and to its resinous production. There are likewise as of England, could not fail to meet with adulation from made of this resin, flambeaux, an inch and a half in diahis courtiers ; a tribute which is liberally Pl even to the meter, and two feet long, which give a beautiful light, meanest and weakest of princes. _ Some of his flatterers have no bad smell, and burn twelve hours. A kind of breaking out one day in admiration of his grandeur, ex- cloth is also prepared from it, which the inhabitants of claimed that every thing was possible for him ; upon which Quito apply to the same purpose as our oil-cloth and sailthe monarch, it is said, ordered a chair to be set on the cloth. Lastly, it is formed, by means of moulds, into a sea shore while the tide was flowing; and as the waters variety of figures for use or ornament. The process is approached, he commanded them to retire, and obey t ic said to be this: The juice, which is obtained by incision, voice of him who was lord of the ocean. He feigned to is spread over pieces of clay formed into the desired shape ; sit some time in expectation of their submission ; but when and as fast as one layer is dry, another is added, till the the sea still advanced towards him, and began to wash vessel be of the proper thickness. The whole is then held him with its billows, he turned to his courtiers, and re- over a strong smoke of vegetables on fire, by which means marked to them, that every creature in the universe was it hardens into the texture and appearance of leather; feeble and impotent, and that power resided with one and before the finishing, while yet soft, is capable of reBeing alone, in whose hands were all the elements of na- ceiving any impression, which remains for ever afterwards. ture,"who could say to the ocean, “ Thus far shalt thou When the whole is finished, the inside mould is picked go and no farther,” and who could level with his nod the 0llt ‘ . • • i most towering piles of human pride and ambition, rrcnn Since this resin has been known in Europe, its chemical that time, it is said, he never would wear a crown, lie qualities other interesting properties have been very died in the twentieth year of his reign,^and was interred diligentlyand investigated. In particular, chemists have enat Winchester, in the old monastery. * . CANY, a town of the department of the Lower Seine, deavoured to discover some method of dissolving it in such a manner that it would assume different figures, with in France, with 240 houses and 1434 inhabitants. CANZONE, in Music, signifies, in general, a song equal ease as when in its original fluid state. In the meof the Academy of Sciences for 1768, we have an where some little figures are introduced; but it is some- moirs times used for a sort of Italian poem, usually pretty long, account of several attempts of this kind, with information for which music may be composed in the style of a cantata. how the object desired may be effected. The state of veIf this term be added to a piece of instrumental music, it getable milk in which the caoutchouc resin is found when it signifies much the same as cantata; if placed in any part comes from the tree, led M. Macquer to imagine that it was of a sonata, it implies the same as allegro, and only de- composed of an oil and a watery matter. From its wanting notes that the part to which it is prefixed is to be played aromatic flavour, from its having little volatility, and from its being incapable of solution in spirits of wine, he concludor sung in a brisk and lively manner. CANZONETTA, a diminutive of canzone, denoting a ed that the oil which entered into its composition was not little short song. The canzonette Neapolitane have two an essential, but a fatty one. Hence he thought it probable strains, each of which is sung twice over, as the vaude- that it passed from a fluid to a solid form by the evaporavilles of the French. The canzonetta Siciliana is a spe- tion of the watery part, and that the oily solvents would cies of jig, the measure of which is usually twelve eighths, reduce it to a soft state. "The first trials he made for dissolving it were with linseed oil, essence of turpentine, and and six eighths, and sometimes both, as rondeaus. CAORLO, a small island in the Gulf of Venice, on the several others. But all he could obtain by means of these coast of Friuli, twenty miles south-west of Aquileia ; sub- menstrua was a viscid substance, incapable of being haiject to Venice. It possesses a small town of the same dened, and totally void of elasticity. The rectified essential oil of turpentine was employed, apparently with greatname. CAOUTCHOUG, Elastic Resin, or India Rubber, a er success. To separate from this menstruum the caoutsubstance produced from the syringe tree of Cayenne and chouc which it had dissolved, M. Macquer added spirits other parts of South America, and possessed of singular of wine; but the consequence was, that part only of the properties. No substance is yet known which is so plia- oil united with the spirit, whilst the rest remained obstible, and at the same time so elastic; and it is further a nately attached to the resin which it had dissolved, and matter of curiosity, as being capable of resisting the action thus prevented it from assuming a solid consistence. The of very powerful menstrua. From the account of M. de author next endeavoured to dissolve it by means of heat la Condamine, we learn that this substance oozes out, un- in Papin’s digester. But neither water nor spirits of wine, der the form of a vegetable milk, from incisions made in although in this way capable of dissolving the hardest the tree; and that it is gathered chiefly in time of rain, bones, could produce any other effect upon it than to renbecause, though it may be collected at all times, it then der it more firm than before. After this he tried what flows most abundantly. The means employed to inspissate effect the milky juice of other vegetables would produce and indurate it, M. de Laborde says, are kept a profound upon it. He used several kinds, particularly that of the secret. M. Bomare and others affirm that it thickens and fig; but in this way he could obtain no solution. From the hardens gradually by being exposed to the air; and that great volatility of ether, he was next induced to try it as soon as it acquires a solid consistence it manifests a as a menstruum ; and accordingly he prepared some with very extraordinary degree of flexibility and elasticity. great attention. The caoutchouc, cut into little bits, and Accordingly the Indians make boots of it which water put into a proper vessel with as much ether as was sufficannot penetrate, and which, when smoked, have the ap- cient to cover it, was perfectly dissolved without any other pearance of real leather. Bottles are also made of it, to heat than that of the atmosphere. 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€ A O 107 sary when ether is employed, on account of its great ac- Caoutchouc. tion upon the caoutchouc. “ It might be feared that the action of water upon caoutchouc would deprive us of the advantages which might otherwise be expected; but these fears will be removed if we consider that the affinities differ according to the temperatures; that it is only at a very high temperature that water exercises any sensible action upon caoutchouc. I can affirm that at 120 degrees of Reaumur’s thermometer (302 degrees of Fahrenheit) this affinity is not such as that the water can give a liquid form to caoutchouc ; and it does not appear that we have any thing to fear in practice from a combination between these two bodies, which, though it really is a true solution, does not take place in any sensible degree but at a high temperature. It is therefore at present easy to make of caoutchouc whatever instruments it may be advantageous to have of a flexible, supple, and elastic substance, which is impermeable to water at the temperature of our atmosphere, and resists the action of acids as well as that of most other solvents. As to the durability of these instruments, few substances promise more than this, because it may be soldered afresh in a damaged part. Any woven substance may be covered with it; it is only required that the substance should be of a nature not to be acted upon during the preparation, either by ether or by boiling water ; for these two agents are those which appear to me to merit the preference. Artists will frequently find an advantage in employing ether, as it requires less time; so that a person may make in a single day any tube he may have occasion for. The expense of ether is very little, since it is needful only to dispose the caoutchouc to adhere ; and being brought into that state, the caoutchouc may be kept in a vessel perfectly well closed. It would also diminish the expense of the ether, if, instead of washing it with a large quantity of water, there should be added to it only as much water as it can take up.” (Annales de Chitnie, vol. xi. p. 149.) A resin similar to this was some years ago discovered by M. Poivre, in the Isle of France; and there are various milky juices extracted from trees in America and elsewhere, which by previous mixtures and preparations are formed into an elastic resin, but of an inferior quality to that of Cayenne. Such, for instance, are the juices obtained from the Cecropia peltatu, the Ficus religiosa and Indica, and from other trees. Of the genuine trees, those growing along the banks of the river of the Amazons are described by M. Condamine as attaining a very great height, being at the same time perfectly straight, and having no branches except at top, which is but small, covering no more than a circumference of ten feet. Its leaves bear some resemblance to those of the manioc; they are green on the upper part, and white beneath. The seeds are three in number, being contained in a pod consisting of three cells, not unlike those of the ricinus or palma Christi; and in each of these there is a kernal, which being stripped and boiled in water, produces a thick oil or fat, answering the purpose of butter in the cookery of that country. A method of dissolving this elastic gum without ether, for the purposes of a varnish or the like, is as follows : Take one pound of the spirit of turpentine, and a pound of the gum cut into very small pieces; pour the turpentine into a long-necked matrass, which must be placed in a sand-bath; throw in the gum, not all at once, but by little and little, according as it is perceived to dissolve; when it is entirely dissolved, pour into the matrass a pint of nut or linseed oil, or oil of poppies, rendered desiccative in the usual manner with litharge; then let the whole boil for a quarter of an hour, and the preparation is finished. This would make an excellent varnish for air balloons, were it

CAP C A O 108 them free; and hence the proverb, Vocare servos Cap 11 Caout- not so expensive on account of the price of the gum. making chouc. Another method, invented by Mr Baldwin, is as follows : ad pileum. Hence, also, on medals, the cap is the symbol | Liberty, whom they represent as holding in her right w Take any quantity of the caoutchouc, as two ounces avon- of a cap by the point. y>dupois; cut it into small bits with a pair of scissors. Put hand The Romans were many ages without any regular coa strong iron ladle, such as plumbers and glaziers me t vering for the head. When either the rain or sun proved their lead in, over a common pit-coal or other fire. Ihe troublesome, the lappet of the gown was thrown over the fire must be gentle, glowing, and without smoke.. When head; and hence it is that all the ancient statues appear the ladle is hot, much below a red heat, put a single bit bareheaded, excepting sometimes a wreath or the like. into the ladle. If black smoke issues it will presently And the same usage obtained among the Greeks, at least flame and disappear, or it will evaporate without flame ; during the heroic age, when no caps were known. The the ladle is then too hot. When the ladle is less hot, put sort of caps or covers of the head in use among the Roin a second bit, which will produce a white smoke. I his mans, on divers occasions, were the pitra, pileus, cucullus, white smoke will continue during the operation, and eva- galerus, and palliolum ; the differences between which are porate the caoutchouc ; therefore no time is to be lost, but often confounded by ancient as well as modern writers. little bits are to be put in, a few at a time, till the whole The French clergy wear a shallow kind of Cap called are melted. It should be continually and gently stirred calotte, which only covers the top of the head, and is made with an iron or brass spoon. Two pounds, or one quart, of leather, satin, worsted, or other stuff*. The red cap is of the best drying oil (or of raw linseed oil, which, together with a few drops of neat’s foot oil, has stood a a mark of dignity, allowed only to those who are raised to month, or not so long, on a lump of quicklime, to make it the dignity of cardinal. The secular clergy are distinguish^ more or less drying) is to be put into the melted caout- ed by black leathern caps, the regulars by knit and worstones. chouc, and stirred till hot, and the whole poured into a ed Churchmen, and the members of universities, students glazed vessel through a coarse gauze or fine sieve. When settled and clear, which it will be in a few minutes, it is fit in law, physic, and others, as well as graduates, wear square caps. In most universities doctors are distinguishfor use, either hot or cold. The Abbe Clavigero informs us, that the elastic gum is ed by peculiar caps, which are given them on assuming called by the Mexicans Ollin or Dili, and by the Spa- their degree. WicklifF calls the canons of his time bifurniards of that kingdom Ule ; that it distils from the olqua- cati, from their caps. Pasquier observes that in his time huitl, which is a tree of moderate size, the trunk of which the caps worn by the churchmen and others were called is smooth and yellowish, the leaves pretty large, the flow- square caps, though in effect they were round yellow caps. The cap is sometimes used as a mark of infamy. In Itaers white, and the fruit yellow and rather round, but angular, and within which there are kernels as large as fil- ly generally the Jews are distinguished by a yellow cap, berts, and white, but covered with a yellowish pellicle; but at Lucca by an orange one. In France, those who that the kernel has a bitter taste, and the fruit always had been bankrupts were obliged ever after to wear a green grows attached to the bark of the tree ; and that when the cap, to prevent people from being imposed on by them in trunk is cut, the ule which distils from it is white, liquid, any future transaction. By several arrets in 1584, 1622, and viscous, but afterwards becomes yellow, and lastly of 1628, and 1688, it was decreed, that if they were at any a leaden colour, though rather blacker, which it always time found without their green cap, their protection should retains. The tree, he adds, is very common in the king- be null, and their creditors empowered to cast them into prison; but the sentence is not now executed. dom of Guatimala, Cap of Maintenance, one of the regalia, or ornaments of Different trees, it would appear, yield the elastic gum. Aublet, in his Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane (p. 871), state, belonging to the kings of England, before whom it describes the tree, the fruit, and manner of collecting the was carried at the coronation and other great solemnities. juice ; but he never saw the flower. He calls it, however, Caps of maintenance are also carried before the mayors of Hevea Guianensis. In Jacquin’s America it is called the several cities in England. Cap and Button Isles, two small islands in the Straits Echites Corymbosa. The younger Linnaeus, in his Supplementum Plantarum (p. 422), names it Jatropha Elas- of Sunda, which are supposed to be of volcanic origin. tica; but acknowledges that he only gives it this name They are round in their figure, and their sides are steep from the structure of the fruit having most resemblance and have a naked appearance. One of them, the Cap, is penetrated by two large caverns running horizontally into to that genus, his dry species wanting the flowers. CAP, a part of dress made to cover the head. The the rock, which are famous for producing the edible birdorigin of caps and hats is referred to the year 1449, the nests so highly prized by the Chinese, and which constifirst seen in these parts of the world being at the entry of tute a great article of traffic. Long. 105. 48. E. Lat. 5. ■ Charles VII. into Rouen; but from that time they began 49. S. CAPACITY, in a general sense, an aptitude or dispoto take place of the hoods, or chaperoons, which had until then been used. When the cap was of velvet they called sition to hold or retain any thing. Capacity, in Geometry, is the solid contents of any it mortier, when of wool simply bonnet. None but kings, princes, and knights, were allowed the use of the mortier. body; also our hollow measures for wine, bear, corn, salt, The cap was the head-dress of the clergy and graduates. &c. are called measures of capacity. CAPALUAN, one of the smaller Philippine Islands, Pasquier says that it was anciently a part of the hood worn by the people of the robe, the skirts of which being cut off fourteen miles in length by five in average breadth. It as an encumbrance, left the round cap an easy and com- lies about four miles south of the island of Luzon. Long. modious cover for the head; which round cap being after- 121. 48. E. Lat. 13. 50. N. wards assumed by the people, those of the gown changed CAPARASON, or Caparison, the covering or clothit for a square one, first invented by a Frenchman called ing laid over a horse, especially a sumpter horse, or horse Patrouillet. He adds, that the giving of the cap to the of state. The word is Spanish, caparazon, being probably students in the universities denoted that they had acquir- an augmentative of capa, a cloak. Anciently the caparaed full liberty, and were no longer subject to the rod of sons were a kind of iron armour, wherewith horses were their superiors; in imitation of the ancient Romans, who covered in battle. gave a. pileus or cap to their slaves, in the ceremony of CAPE, a high land running out with a point into the

CAP sea, as Cape Nord, Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope, &c. Cape Breton. See Breton. Cape Coast Castle. See Coast. Cape of Good Hope. See Good Hope. Cape Verd. See Verd. CAPELL, Edward, a gentleman well known by his indefatigable attention to the works of Shakspeare, was a native of the county of Suffolk, and received his education at the school of St Edmund's Bury. In the dedication of his edition of Shakspeare, in 1768, to the Dt[ke of Grafton, he observes that “ his father and the grandfather of his grace were friends, and to the patronage of the deceased nobleman he owed the leisure which enabled him to bestow the attention of twenty years on that work.’' The office which his grace bestowed on Mr Capell was that of deputy-inspector of the plays, to which a salary was annexed of L.200 a year. As early as the year 1745, Mr Capell, shocked at the licentiousness of Hanmer’s plan, first projected an edition of Shakspeare, of the strictest accuracy, to be collated and published in due time, ex fide codicurn. Accordingly, he proceeded to collect and compare the oldest and scarcest copies, noting the original excellencies and defects of the rarest quartos, and distinguishing the improvements or variations of the first, second, and third folios ; and after many years labour produced a very beautiful small octavo in ten volumes, with an “ Introduction.” There is not, as the authors of a monthly periodical have observed, a more singular literary composition than that “ Introduction.” In style and manner it is more obsolete and antique than the age of which he treats. It is Lord Herbert of Cherbury walking the new pavement in all the trappings of romance; but, like Lord Herbert, it displays many valuable qualities accompanying this air of extravagance, much sound sense, and appropriate erudition. In the title-page of “ Mr William Shakspeare, his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,” it was announced “ Whereunto will be added, in some other volumes, notes critical and explanatory, and a body of various readings entire.” “ The Introduction” likewise declared that these “ notes and various i-eadings” would be accompanied with another work, disclosing the sources from which Shakspeare “ drew the greater part of his knowledge in mythological and classical matters, his fable, his history, and even the seeming peculiarities of his language, to which,” says Mr Capell, “ we have given for title, The School of Shakspeare.” Nothing surely could be more properly conceived than such designs; nor have we ever met with any thing better grounded on the subject of “ the learning of Shakspeare,” than what may be found in the long note to this part of Mr Capell’s Introduction. It is more solid than even the popular “ Essay” on this topic. Certain quaintnesses of style, and peculiarities of printing and punctuation, attended the whole of this publication. The outline, however, was correct; and the critic, with unremitting toil, succeeded in his undertaking. But while he was diving into the classics of Caxton, and working his way under ground, like the river Mole, in order to emerge in all his glory,—while he was looking forward to his triumphs, —certain other active spirits went to work upon his plan, and, digging out the promised treasures, laid them prematurely before the public, defeating the effect of our critic’s discoveries by anticipation. Steevens, Malone, Farmer, Percy, Reed, and a whole host of literary ferrets, burrowed into every hole and corner of the warren of modern antiquity, and overran all the country, whose map had been delineated by Edward Capell. Such a contingency nearly staggered the steady and unshaken perseverance of our critic on the very eve of the completion of his labours ; and, as his editor informs us—for, unhappily, at the end of near

CAP 109 forty years the publication was posthumous, and the critic Capella himself no more—he was almost determined to lay the II work wholly aside. By the encouragement of some noble Caperolans. and worthy persons, however, he persevered; and to such their encouragement, and his perseverance, the public was, in 1783, indebted for three large volumes in 4to, under the title of “ Notes and various readings of Shakspeare ; together with the School of Shakspeare, or Extracts from divers English Books that were in print in the Author’s time ; evidently showing from whence his several Fables were taken, and some parcel of his Dialogue. Also farther extracts, which contribute to a due understanding of his Writings, or give a light to the History of his Life, or to the Dramatic History of his Time. By Edward Capell.” Besides the works already mentioned, Mr Capell was the editor of a volume of ancient poems called “ Prolusions and the alteration of “ Anthony and Cleopatra,” as acted at Drury Lane in 1758. He died on the 24th January 1781. CAPELLA, in Astronomy, a bright fixed star in the left shoulder of the constellation Auriga. CAPELLUS, Lewis, an eminent French Protestant divine, born at Sedan in Champagne about the year 1579. He was the author of some learned works, but is chiefly known from the controversy he engaged in with the younger Buxtorf concerning the antiquity of the Hebrew points or Masora, which Capellus undertook to disprove. His Critica Sacra was also an elaborate work, and excited some disputes. He died in 1658, having made an abridgment of his life in his work De Gente Capellori. CAPERNAUM, a city celebrated in the Gospels, being the place where Jesus usually resided during the time of his ministry. This city is nowhere mentioned in the Old Testament under this or any other name like it; and therefore it is not improbable that it was one of those towns which the Jews built after their return from the Babylonish captivity. It stood on the sea-coast, that is, on the coast of the sea of Galilee, on the borders of Zebulon and Naphtalim (Matt. iv. 15), and consequently towards the upper part thereof. It took its name no doubt from an adjacent spring, of great repute for its clear and limpid water, and which, according to Josephus, was by the natives called Capernaum. As this spring might be some inducement to the building of the town in the place where it stood, so its being a convenient place of transport from Galilee to any part on the other side of the sea might be some motive to our Lord for his moving from Nazareth, and making this the place of his most constant residence. Upon this account Capernaum was highly honoured, and said by our Lord himself to be “ exalted unto heaven but because it made no right use of this signal favour, it drew from him the severe denunciation, that it should “ be brought down to hell” (Matt. xi. 23), which has certainly been verified; for, as Dr Wells observes, so far is it from being the metropolis of all Galilee, as it once was, that it consisted long since of no more than six poor fishermen’s huts, and may perhaps be now totally desolate. CAPEROLANS, a congregation of religious in Italy, so called from Peter Caperole their founder, in the 15th century. The Milanese and Venetians being at war, the enmity thereby occasioned spread itself to the very cloisters. The superiors of minor brothers in the province of Milan, which extended itself as far as the territories of the republic of Venice, carried it so haughtily over the Venetians, that those of the convent of Brescia resolved to shake off a yoke which had grown insupportable to them. The superiors, informed of this, drove out of the province those whom they considered as the authors of this design, the principal of whom were Peter Caperole, Mat-

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CAP thew de Tharvillo, and Bonaventure of Brescia. Peter Caperole, a man of an enterprising genius, found means to separate the convents of Brescia, Bergamo, and Cremona, province of Milan, and subject them to the conventuals. This occasioned a law-suit between the vicaigeneral and these convents, which was determined in favour of the latter; and the convents, in 1475, by the authority of Pope Sextus IY., were erected into a distinct vicarate, under the title of that of Brescia. But this not satisfying the ambition of Caperole, he obtained, by the interposition of the doge of Venice, that this vicarate might be erected into a congregation, which from him was called Caperolans. This congregation still supsists in Italy, and is composed of twenty-four convents, situated in Ciescia, Bergamo, and Cremasco. CAPH, a Jewish measure of capacity for things, estimated by Komchi at the thirtieth part of the log, by Arbuthnot at the sixteenth part of the hin or thirty-second of the seah, amounting to five eighths of an English pint. The caph does not occur in Scripture as the name of any measure. CAPHTOR, in Ancient Geography, a town or district of Upper Egypt; and hence the people called Caphtorim or Caphtorei. CAPI-Aga, or Capi-Agassi, a Turkish officer who is governor of the gates of the seraglio, or grand master of the seraglio. The capi-aga is the first dignity among the white eunuchs ; he is always near the person of the grand signior; he introduces ambassadors to public audiences; and nobody enters or goes out of the grand signior’s apartment but by his means. His office gives him the.privilege of wearing the turban in the seraglio, and of going everywhere on horseback. He accompanies the grand signior to the apartment of the sultanas, but stops at the door without entering. His appointment is very moderate: the grand signior bears the expense of his table, and allows him at the rate of about sixty French livres per day; but his office brings him abundance of presents, no affair of consequence coming to the emperor’s knowledge with-

CAP out passing through his hand. The capi-aga cannot be- Capias come pasha when he quits his post. I CAPIAS, in Law, a writ of two sorts ; one before judg- ^pillan ment in an action, and the other after. That before judgment is called capias ad respondendum, where an original is issued out, to take the defendant, and make him answer the plaintiff. That after judgment is of divers kinds ; as, Capias ad Satisfaciendum, a writ of execution, that issues on a judgment obtained, and lies where any person recovers in a personal action, as for debt, damages, and the like ; in which cases this writ issues to the sheriff, commanding him to take the body of him against whom the debt is recovered, who is to be kept in prison till he makes satisfaction. Capias pro Fine is a writ lying where a person is fined to the king, for some offence committed against a statute, and he does not discharge the fine according to the judgment ; therefore his body shall be taken by this writ, and committed to jail till the fine be paid. Capias ut Legatum, a writ which lies against any one outlawed, upon any action personal or criminal, by which the sheriff is ordered to apprehend the party outlawed, for not appearing on the exigent, and keep him in safe custody till the day of return, when he is ordered to present him to the court, to be there further ordered for his contempt. Capias in Withernam, a writ that lies for cattle in withernam ; that is, where a distress taken is driven out of the county, so that the sheriff cannot make deliverance upon a replevin; then this writ issues, commanding the sheriff to take as many beasts of the distrainer, &c. CAPIGI, or Capidji, a porter or door-keeper of the Turkish seraglio. The word, in its original, signifies gate. CAPILL AMENT, in a general sense, signifies a hair; and hence the word is applied to several things which, on account of their length or their fineness, resemble hairs; as, CAPILLARY, in a general sense, an appellation given to things on account of their extreme fineness, or resembling hair.

CAPILLARY 1. When a solid body is partially plunged in a fluid, the level surface near it is disturbed, and the fluid is observed either to ascend or descend, so as to form a ring round the part immersed. If a tube of glass be inserted in a vessel containing water, the liquid will rise in a concave ring, both on the outside and the inside; and if the tube be small enough, the cylinder of water within it will be elevated above the general level, and the elevation will be greater nearly in the same proportion that the bore is less. On the other hand, if the tube be plunged in mercury, the fluid in contact with the glass will be depressed, forming a hollow ring with the convexity upward; and when the diameter is very small, the cylinder of mercury in the inside will sink below the level on the outside. In all these appearances the physical cause is the same, and it has received the name of Capillary Action, because its effects are most remarkable in the case of tubes with extremely minute diameters. No part of natural philosophy has been the subject of a greater variety of researches than capillary action. It has been viewed in almost every possible light, and it would be difficult to suggest a new principle that has not been proposed by some philosopher in order to account for the observed appearances. One advantage has resulted from repeated discussion ; for by this means the true cause of the phenomena is no longer doubtful, although

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there is still considerable difference of opinion with regard to the manner in which the effects are produced. It is now universally allowed, that the suspension of fluids in capillary tubes is to be ascribed to the attraction observed to take place between the elementary particles of which bodies are composed. We shall not stop to detail the different experiments which prove the reality of this attractive force, and we shall at once assume that the two following facts, which are the fundamental principles of this theory, are fully established; namely, that glass and other solid bodies attract the particles of fluids with which they are in contact, and that the particles of fluids attract one another. Admitting these two kinds of attraction, it remains to investigate the consequences that flow from them. 2. Corpuscular attraction acts with great intensity in Law 0f ( contact, or at the nearest distances, but it decreases very corpusculf j rapidly as the distance increases, and, on the whole, is con-attraction „ fined within a very small range. Clairaut supposed that the sides of a capillary tube extend their action to the central parts of the contained cylinder of fluid. But in this opinion he is singular. All other philosophers confine the sphere of attraction within much narrower limits. They suppose that the corpuscular force has produced its full effect, and has become evanescent, at a distance so small that it cannot be appreciated by the senses. But

CAPILLAR Y ACTION. Ill below the surface ; and it will follow, from what has been Capillary ( illary from this we are not to conclude that a particle attracts ;ion. those only which are quite contiguous to it; its action, al- proved, that the compression is constant in all the central Action, „Lyw' though confined within a sphere of a very small radius, part; and likewise that it is uniformly of the same intennevertheless extends to some distance, and reaches to the sity throughout every superficial stratum, varying from one stratum to another, and decreasing very rapidly near particles beyond the nearest. As corpuscular attraction extends its influence to a dis- the surface. Such a body of fluid will therefore be in tance, it must vary, within the sphere of its action, ac- equilibrium whatever be its figure; in other words, the cording to some law, which is unknown, and in all proba- corpuscular attraction will oppose no resistance to a bility will never be discovered. But a knowledge of this change of figure in the fluid, nor obstruct, in any degree, law is not necessary to explain the capillary phenomena; the perfect mobility of the particles among one another. It must be observed, however, that the conclusion just for these are caused by the accumulated action of the r force in its whole range, and are independent of the inter- obtained is exact only when w e confine our attention to mediate variations of intensity which it may undergo. In the direct action of the attractive forces, as is done in the this respect capillary action resembles the attraction by theory of the figure of the earth. But there is another efwhich transparent bodies refract the rays of light. In both fect caused by the direct attraction of the particles of a cases, what we observe is the total effect of the attractive fluid, to be afterwards considered, which takes place only energy, which may remain the same, although the inter- at the surface, and from which this consequence results, that a body of fluid subjected to no forces but the attracmediate degrees of intensity be infinitely varied. A -action 3. Conceive a fluid mass (Plate CXLV. fig. 1), the par- tion of its own particles will no longer be indifferent to 0- fluid tides of which attract one another, but which is subjected any figure, but will arrange itself in a perfect sphere. A change in the temperature of a fluid mass will pro- Effect of n 5 on its to the action of no other forces, not even to that of grao parti- yity; and let an imaginary surface be traced through the duce an alteration in the cohesive force; but it appears temperature c ^' fluid, having at every part a depth equal to the utmost very difficult, if not impossible, to estimate, in any satisrange of the corpuscular force. Then a particle placed factory manner, the effect arising from this cause. A variation of temperature will affect the attraction of within the imaginary surface may be considered as occupying the centre of a sphere of the fluid, described with a the particles of a fluid by the change of density which it radius equal to the greatest distance to which attraction induces. When two portions of a fluid attract one another, reaches; whence it is manifest that the particle will be if we conceive one of them to have its density changed, urged with equal forces in all opposite directions. If the while that of the other remains unaltered, it is evident particle be placed between the boundaries of the super- that their cohesion will be proportional to the number of ficial stratum or film, the sphere of which it is the centre particles of the first portion placed within the sphere of will extend above the fluid’s surface; and, on account of action of the second ; that is, it will vary in the direct the defect of matter, the particle will be less attracted proportion of the density. Again, if we now suppose the outward than inward. Let N be a particle so situated, density of the second portion to vary, the attractive force and suppose that n is another particle as much elevated will on this account also suffer a proportional change. above the fluid’s surface as N is immersed below it; and Wherefore, when both portions undergo an equal change trace the surface PQ in the fluid as far below N as that of temperature, their cohesion will vary as the square of particle itself is below the outer boundary of the fluid the density. Again, the variations in the mutual distances of the mass. Then the particle N will be in equilibrium with regard to the attraction of all the fluid above PQ; but it particles of a fluid, caused by changes of temperature, will be urged inward by the force with which it is attract- must bear a finite proportion to the range of the corpused by the fluid below PQ; and as the particles at N and cular force ; and, on this account, a change in the fluid’s n are similarly situated with regard to the wdiole fluid cohesion will take place, depending upon the law that atmass, and the part of it below the surface PQ, it is mani- traction follows in regard to the distance. At a given fest that the attraction of the whole mass upon the particle temperature, and under a given pressure, the particles at n is equal to the force which urges the particle at N in- are separated from one another to a certain distance, at ward. From this it follows, that all particles placed in a which there is an equilibrium between the attractive force stratum which is everywhere at the same depth below which impels them to one another, and the repulsive power the fluid’s surface, are drawn inward with the same force, attending the action of heat. In these circumstances, the equal to that with which the whole mass attracts a par- actual cohesion is due to that part only of the whole corticle placed at an equal height above the fluid’s surface. puscular force which is exerted upon the particles placed If now we conceive a canal passing through the interior beyond the limit of approach allowed by the given degree of the fluid, and terminating both ways in the surface, it of temperature. The cohesion, too, is diminished not only follows, from what has been said, that the attraction of the by the decreased intensity of the attractive force, but also whole mass upon the superficial drops placed at the two by the increased repulsion of heat. Our ignorance of the orifices will propagate equal pressures in opposite direc- laws that regulate the action of these forces makes it imtions through the canal. In order to estimate the force possible to subject to calculation the effect of a change of of compression, we may denote by K the pressure in- temperature ; but, when we consider that corpuscular atward, caused by the attraction of the whole fluid upon a traction decreases very rapidly as the distance increases, square inch of the superficial film; then a portion of the it is extremely probable that the cohesion of a fluid unfluid within the canal will be compressed by the equal dergoes much greater changes from this cause than from forces, K, acting in opposite directions. This is true of the variations of density. But capillary action arises from the cohesion between all portions of the fluid within the superficial stratum; between the boundaries of that stratum the compressive the particles of a fluid, and the attraction that takes place force is less, being always of the same intensity at the between them and the solid bodies with which they are same depth, but decreasing rapidly in approaching the brought into contact. Experiments show that these forces continue to act so long as the state of fluidity endures ; surface, where it is evanescent. We may now conceive a fluid mass, whatever be its their action is constant under the same temperature; and figure, to consist of a central part, surrounded by an inde- they are affected in degree only by the variations of heat. finite number of thin beds or strata, placed at equal depths In the further prosecution of this inquiry we shall there-

CAPILLAR Y ACTION. equal to unit, the attractive force of the plate upon the CapiU* Capillary fore throw out of view the effect of temperature, and shall thin elementary section will be equal to Action Action' confine our attention to develope the consequences ot Y(a) X wda ; corpuscular attraction. . and hence the attraction of the plate upon all the water Attraction 4. The attraction of a solid body on every particle ot in the tube will be equal to the integral between a a fluid within the sphere ot its action, is a torce peipendisolid body cu]ar to the surface of the solid. This is manifest from w X\jY(ayda, and a fluid. the homogeneity of the solid when its surface is a plane ; generated while a increases from 0 to be infinitely great. for, on account of the uniform arrangement of the parts, there is no reason why the attractive force should decline The expression J Y(a)-da, which we may denote by K', from the perpendicular to one side rather than to another. is therefore the force with which the attraction of the And when the solid is bounded by a curve of any kind, glass causes the fluid to press upon a square inch of the we may still consider the extremely small part of the sur- plate, or it is the measure of that force. If the particles face which acts on a particle, as coinciding with the tan- of the fluid were attracted by the matter of the plate gent plane; whence we may conclude thdt, in all cases, with an intensity equal to their own cohesive force, then the attraction on every particle is perpendicular to the K' would be equal to K, that is, it would be equal to the surface of the attracting body. The same thing is true in force with which an indefinite mass of the fluid causes the the action of transparent bodies on light; for, if the mo- superficial stratum to press inward. tion of a ray be decomposed into two parts, one parallel to In the inside periphery of the tube, assume any deterthe refracting surface, and the other perpendicular to it, length ab, equal to A, and let the lines ac, bd, be the observed law of refraction implies that the velocity of minate drawn in the interior surface at right angles to ab. The the first part will remain unchanged, while the velocity of area of the space abdc is equal to A X « ; and because fluids the other part will be increased or diminished by the repress equally in all directions, the attraction which urges fracting force. If a smooth plate of glass be laid horizontally upon the the elementary section towards the plate AB will cause surface of water, it is found that the glass will adhere to the fluid below the section to press upon the space abdc a force which is to the attractive force urging the the water. The adhesion is not produced by the pressure with of the atmosphere, for the fact is equally true in the va- section downward, as A X « to the area ot the section. cuum of an air-pump. There is, therefore, evidently an Hence the pressure on the space abdc, caused by the attraction between the glass and the water, acting per- attraction of the glass on the elementary section GH, is pendicularly to the plate, and causing it to adhere to the equal to A X Y(a)'ada. water. This expression would evidently denote the pressure upon If the plate, instead of being laid horizontally upon the water, be immersed vertically in it, the part below the sur- the surface abdc, if the fluid below the section were imface will exert the same attractions as it did in the former pelled towards the plate by a piston exactly fitted to the position. Every particle of the fluid within the sphere of orifice of the tube. But there is no difference between action of the glass will be drawn perpendicularly towards the action of such a piston and that of the thin elemenit, and a thin coating of the fluid will attach itself to all tary section when urged by attraction with equal force in the same direction. The total force acting laterally in the the immersed surface of the plate. Secondary 5. Although the attractive force exerted by a solid length A, is therefore equal to the fluent or lateral body on a fluid is confined to insensible distances, it must A X J\(a)'ada, force. st;i) be considered as penetrating in some degree into the fluid mass. The thin film on which it acts retains posses- generated while a increases from 0 to be infinitely great. sion of all the properties of a fluid. The particles of water Hence, if we put IT =J'Y(a)'ada ; then H' will be the in contact with the glass press upon its surface ; the particles farther off press upon those nearer; and the whole measure of the lateral force in the length equal to unit. It is obvious that the direct attraction between two film is in a state of compression. But it is a distinguishing property of a fluid, arising from the perfect mobility portions of a fluid, as well as that between a solid and of its particles, that a pressure in one direction will cause a fluid, is attended with a lateral pressure. It we dean equal pressure in all directions ; and hence we must in- note by H what IT becomes when the matter of the plate fer that the thin film of water, at the same time that it is attracts the fluid with the same intensity that the fluid compressed by the direct attraction of the glass, will like- attracts its own particles, then H will be the measure ot wise press laterally, or will make an effort to spread itself the lateral force arising from the direct attraction of the towards every side on the surface of the plate. If the fluid, and it will have the same relation to K that H' has film, instead of being attracted by the plate, were pressed to K'. The lateral force is always very small when compared against its surface by a weight, the lateral pressure, estimated on a given superficial space, would be the same with the direct pressure. For the function Y(a) has a with the direct pressure. But as the strata at different conceivable value oqly when a is so small as to be imperdistances from the plate are attracted in unequal degrees, ceptible to the senses ; in such circumstances the product the whole lateral force can be found only by summing up Y(a) X a is very small when compared with Y(a) ; and, the lateral pressures arising from the attraction upon each consequently, '¥(a)ada is considerable in respect of stratum. Let AB (fig. 2) be a plate of glass on which there stands an upright vessel or tube, containing water; and K'=/f (a)'da. let GH be a thin section or elementary part of the water The smallness of the lateral in comparison of the direct within the tube, parallel to the glass, and so near it as to pressure arises from this, that every elementary part of be attracted by it. Suppose that w denotes the area of the latter is estimated on the same finite area, while the the section, a its distance from the plate, and da its thick- simultaneous element of the former is confined to a space ness ; and let Y (a) represent the attraction of the whole incomparably less. These two pressures resemble the matter of the plate upon a single particle of water placed power in the hydrostatic paradox, and the effect which it at the distance a. Then the density being constant and produces. In both cases we have a small pressure applied U2

CAPILLARY ACTION. 113 traction of the plate tends to disturb the equilibrium of Capillary : Hlary to a surface extremely minute, in equilibrium with a great the fluid. Action. . ion. pressure distributed over a comparatively large area. Suppose a horizontal plane, df, to be traced in the fluid, When a piece of glass is partially plunged in water in a vertical direction, the thin film which is attracted by the at a depth equal to the range of the corpuscular force; immersed surface endeavours to spread itself on the glass then this plane will separate all the superficial strata, in with an effort more or less in proportion to the compres- which the pressure is variable, from the rest of the mass. sive force. Below the surface of the water the lateral ac- Below the plane df the fluid particles cohere with the tions of the parts in contact mutually counteract one ano- same force in every part, and they are likewise attracted ther ; but at the surface the expansive force meets with with equal intensity by all the points of the plate with no opposition. The film will therefore be pushed above which they are in contact; above the same plane the atthe general level; and as it acts by cohesion on the conti- tractive force of the plate remains unchanged, but the guous fluid, it will draw up a portion of it, and form a ring pressure of the fluid in the different strata is variable, surrounding the immersed part of the glass. The small gradually becoming less and less as we approach the surfluid mass on which the glass exerts its attraction per- face. It wall therefore be proper, first to examine what forms the office of a machine, which changes a horizontal tendency the part of the plate below the plane d f has force into one having a vertical direction. In the mecha- to disturb the equilibrium; and, secondly, to consider the nical properties of a fluid we thus have a principle ade- effect of the plate’s attraction upon the superficial film or quate to account for what we observe in capillary action. stratum. If the matter of the plate have the same attraction for But although the general view here given of the cause of the capillary phenomena is so far satisfactory, a great deal the particles of the fluid that they have for one another, of discussion is still necessary, in order to deduce from we may consider the plate as a body of the fluid that has it a clear explanation of the laws observed in the appear- congealed without any other change; in which case it is evident that, below the superficial stratum, the cohesive ances that take place in different circumstances. The idea of accounting for capillary action by means of force of the fluid particles will be equal to their adhesion the lateral force produced by the direct attraction of a to the plate, and the action of the solid matter will nowise solid body upon a fluid, is due to Professor Leslie, a phi- disturb the equilibrium of the fluid in the vessel. If the plate be supposed to have no attraction for the losopher to whom physical science is indebted for more than one discovery. It is developed and applied, to ex- fluid, a canal having one end in the surface of the fluid, plain some of the principal phenomena, in a short disser- and the other end on the plate, will be similar to a canal tation published in 1802 in the Philosophical Magazine. terminating both ways in the fluid’s surface. It will be This dissertation is written with the same ability that cha- in equilibrium by the mutual attractions of the particles racterizes all the productions of the author; and nothing within it, and will exert no pressure whatever upon the more was necessary than to pursue the observation he plate. If the solid matter attract the particles of the fluid, but had made, in order to obtain a complete theory of this branch of natural philosophy. It happens that, in this with less intensity than they attract one another, there instance, the views of the philosopher are confirmed by will be an adhesion of the fluid to the plate in proportion the most abstruse and refined mathematical investigation. to the attractive force. In this case we may distinguish The formula found by Laplace for the attractive force of the attraction between the fluid particles into two parts, a fluid bounded by a curve surface, consists of two parts, one of which is equal to and in equilibrium with the atone of which is the same for all surfaces, and the other varies traction of solid matter; while the other part, which is with the curvature in each particular case. The first of over and above what balances the attraction of the solid these terms is the attractive force of an indefinite mass of matter, is in equilibrium by the mutual action of the parthe fluid bounded by a plane. The other term, which ticles upon one another. The solid matter acts immediately upon a thin portion depends upon the curvature, is composed of a constant quantity multiplied into half the sum of the reciprocals of the fluid in contact with it; that portion attracts anoof the radii of the circles, which have the same curvature ther contiguous portion; and in this manner the attracwith any two sections of the curve surface made by tion of the plate reaches to any distance in the fluid mass. planes, perpendicular to one another and to the curve But from this it is manifest that the whole of a force surface; and, on examination, this constant quantity will greater than the mutual attraction of the particles cannot be found to coincide with the measure of the lateral ten- be propagated to a distance. Part of it must remain condency of the fluid caused by the direct action of the first fined to the sphere of immediate action. Hence, if the force. Thus it appears that the two quantities which plate attract the particles of the fluid with greater intenenter into the formula of Laplace are no other than the sity than they attract one another, a part only of the atmeasures of the two kinds of force which we have been traction of the solid matter will balance the whole attracconsidering; the one denoting the direct pressure caused tion of the fluid ; and the remaining part will not penetrate by the attraction of a fluid mass bounded by a plane, and beyond the range of the corpuscular force, but will act the other signifying the derivative force acting laterally, only upon a thin film of the fluid in contact with the plate. which is a necessary consequence of the direct pressure. In this case, therefore, the plate’s attraction produces a In a subsequent part of this article, what has now been force which is not absorbed by the fluid. As this force advanced will be proved, by deducing the formula of La- compresses the thin film on which it acts upon the plate’s place in a direct and satisfactory manner from the two surface, it will be attended with a lateral pressure, or an kinds of force, with the consideration of which we have effort of the film to spread itself on all sides; and it may been occupied. at first be thought that this lateral tendency, by acting er in 6. Imagine a large vessel D G H F (fig. 3), which con- upon the superficial stratum, will disturb the equilibrium. the a fluid subjected to no forces but gravity and the at- But it will immediately occur, that the effort which the mn sion tains f a lid traction of its own particles, and consequently having its edge of the film adhering to the plate below the plane df tod lis- surface DF horizontal; let AB represent a rectangular makes to raise up the superficial stratum, is counteracted url the plate partially plunged in the fluid which it attracts; and by the opposite effort of the fluid situated immediately supposing the surface of the fluid to remain level, let it above the plane df Thus, in every relation that can subbe proposed to investigate the force with which the at- sist between the attractive powers of the plate and the p VOL. VI.

CAPILLARY ACTION. 114 the opposite force, and reduce the canal to equilibrium; Cap® Capillary fluid, that part of the solid which is immersed below the and the other part, K' = |K, will act only upon the paral- Acti c Action. superficial stratum has no tendency to disturb the equili- lelopiped n, and will compress it upon the surface of the brium of the fluid in the vessel. plate. The compression will produce a lateral force proInsuffiSome philosophers account for capillary action by means portional to H' — ^H, which urges the small fluid mass to ciency of of attractions between the plate and the fluid, which are spread itself towards every side; and as this force is unLaplace’s supposed to take place, partly at the surface of the fluid, second the "and partly at the bottom of the plate. Laplace, in parti- opposed vertically upward, the equilibrium of the fluid ory of cawill be disturbed; the superficial film will ascend all round pillary ac- cular, has grounded his second or more popular theory the plate, and, by means of the force of cohesion, will entirely on such attractions. He observes, that the part carry with it a portion of the fluid till the suspended tion. of the plate’s vertical plane immersed in the water attracts weight is sufficient to counterbalance the force acting the fluid in contact with it as much upward as downward, upward. . and therefore has no effect in causing either-an elevation When K' is less than LK, the parallelepiped in contact or a depression; but the part above the water attracts a with the plate will be more attracted in the direction of thin film in contact with the plate upward ; and the whole the canal than towards the plate. When this happens vertical side of the plate likewise attracts in the same the fluid is depressed below the level by capillary action; direction the fluid below it, and situated in its prolonga- but we shall leave this case to be afterwards considered, tion. According to Laplace, it is the united effect of these and at present confine our attention to the former case, two attractions which supports the suspended ring. Ihe when the fluid is elevated above the level. whole of this reasoning appears to us gratuitous. JNo 7. When the immersion of the plate causes an eleva-Ring part of the fluid is attracted by the solid matter in a ver- tion, the fluid will assume the form of a concave ring, as the suit tical direction, but in a direction perpendicular to the KLM (fig. 4). If we suppose a superficial canal divided”^Sl; ! plate’s surface. The immersed part of the solid presents into parallelepipeds as before, we may prove by like rea-^/.," a continuous surface to the fluid, attracting it with the soning that the attraction of the solid matter has no ten-fl^j same intensity at every point; whereas Laplace neglects dency to disturb the equilibrium of the fluid except by the action of the plate’s horizontal boundary, and seems the lateral force which it communicates to the small pato suppose that the attractive energy of the solid matter rallelepiped in contact with it. And since the attractive resides only in the vertical sides. We have endeavoured force of the plate upon the particles of the fluid depends to prove that the thin film or coating of fluid which covers only upon their perpendicular distance from its surface, the part of the solid immersed below the superficial stra- it readily follows that the lateral force will undergo no tum, is everywhere in a state of equilibrium and of equal variation, but will remain constantly equal to IT — |H, compression by the attractions which act upon it. Ihere both during the rising of the ring, and when it has atis, therefore, no force produced at the bottom of the plate tained the greatest The reciprocal attracby the attraction between the solid matter and the parti- tion of all the fluid inelevation. the vessel likewise produces prescles of the fluid which can contribute to support the sures that are propagated inward from the surface of the weight of the ring raised above the level We proceed now to consider the action of the plate fluid, and from the sides and bottom of the vessel, sect. upon the superficial stratum. Trace a canal at right an- 3; but these forces cannot be in equilibrium with the gles to the plate, of the same depth with the superficial ring and the disturbing force arising from the plate’s atfilm, and having its horizontal width equal to unit, and traction. For the former forces have no tendency to continue the canal till it terminate in a vertical plane PS, move the centre of gravity of the whole mass, whereas parallel to the plate. Let 11 be the small portion of the the latter tend to produce motion in that point, each in canal within the sphere of the plate s attraction, and sup- its own direction. In the case of equilibrium, therefore, pose the canal to be divided in its whole length into the the vertical force arising from the plate s attraction must parallelepipeds m,m, m, &c., each equal to n. It is plain that be equal to the weight of the suspended ring; or, which the attractions of the fluid below the canal, and on the is the same thing, FT—will express the weight of a two sides of it, have no tendency to impel it in any direc- portion of the ring in every unit of the horizontal extent. The vertical force produced by the attraction of the tion, nor to impede the motion of the fluid along it. fhe canal is also in equilibrium with regard to gravity, since solid matter begins to act the instant the fluid comes into by the hypothesis it is horizontal. The rectangular wedge contact with the solid ; it first causes the ring to rise, and it suspended. of fluid beyond the plane PS will attract the small paral- then keeps If m2 denote the area of a section of the ring made by a lelepiped contiguous to it with a force proportional to ^K, because K denotes the attractive force of two rectangular vertical2 plane2 perpendicular to the surface or the plate, wedges, sect. 5 ; and the same parallelepiped will also be then tn , or m X 1, will be the volume of a portion of the attracted with an equal force in the opposite direction by fluid equal in weight to IT—|H. If two parallel plates, AB and CD (fig. 5), very near Llevat the one next to it. In like manner, every parallelopiped in the canal is attracted with equal forces by those conti- one another, have their lower ends immersed in a fluid, guous to it on opposite sides, except the one in contact is observed that the fluid will rise between them above thetwop„ with the plate, which is attracted in the direction of the natural level. Conceive a superficial canal extending be-je[piai canal with the force |K, and towards the plate with the tween the plates in a direction at right angles to their surforce K', depending upon the intensity of the plate’s at- faces, having its depth equal to the greatest range of the corpuscular force, and its horizontal width equal to unit; traction for the fluid. Now, if K' be just equal to ^K, which will happen when then all the fluid below the canal will be in equilibrium the intensity of the plate’s attraction is half that of the with respect to the attractive forces that act upon it, and fluid, the parallelepiped n will be situated, with regard to therefore the suspended weight must be supported by the the forces that act upon it, similarly to the others in the action of the two plates upon the canal. Of the forces canal; in this case, therefore, the insertion of the plate which act upon the canal, we may neglect the attraction will not disturb the equilibrium of the fluid, the surface of of the fluid below it, which causes the particles in the inwhich will remain horizontal. side to press perpendicularly on the bottom. At each end If K' be greater than ^K, it may be resolved into two it is attracted by the plates with a force equal to K', or parts, + (K' — ^K), of which one will counterbalance + (K'— ^K), and, at the vertical sides between the

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CAPILLARY ACTION. 115 T and tubes of the same matter act on the same fluid, if w e Capillary plates, by the fluid on the outside with a force equal ^K. Wherefore, when the canal is reduced to equilibrium by equate the values of it taken from the last expression, and Action, equalizing the pressure upon its sides, there will remain from the expression formerly obtained for two plates, we at each end an excess of force equal to K'—^K, which shall get compresses the fluid upon the plates; and the compresHXQ = rX — t3. | /64 A.-r 4-^14 + &c. N t u ^ X 640 161280 1 2257920 w—x'c }lfvdt = 9wVc }^vdt 2 3 t , t + &c. each of which, being multiplied by a constant quantity, N'" = *4 • Q'" = t4- / ™ \ 768 256 ^ 286720 will exhibit the general value, on the supposition that w These formulae will enable us to compute the value of vanishes with x: but the constant quantity is not necesQ, Q', &c. with sufficient exactness when t is not exsary for the purpose we have in view. tremely large. By substituting in the assumed value of Now, let z = ~ : then, on account of the equations (1) s = —= and observing that A2 cJ'vd^, we shall get x'X’ and (2), we shall readily get dds 4_, ^ ds 4., ^2 dw dw ds s — “ A 4" A3, ?A2a ^ + ^2A4- ^ 4- &c. ,2c2 * • • • (A) x‘X dx2 xdx 1 wdx' dx kxX and hence if we put f = we shall have which may be thus written : ds dA2 A2 1 J A2 dw ds \xdx s; + 2 &c. . (3) xdx wxdx’xdx' In this method of proceeding the co-efficients in the series for jf are in every case very small, and decrease so „ j ds f ds , dw fast, that a few of the first terms determine the value of/ but xdx 2dt, —r~ x‘ 2— t, and 2 T +hv; t dt wxdx xdx with sufficient exactness. In reality, as t increases, each therefore, we have of the co-efficients increases from 0 to a certain limit; whence it follows that f will decrease from 1 to a certain d d-( 4-t) , 24 \dt J . ds . ds limit, which is greater than —. S; 2 2 ~~dT + di + v-dit 7 w‘ s‘ In order to prove what has been advanced, and to deJ' ~T and if we multiply both sides by c fvdt, and expand the termine the limit of/ assume w — —and substitute in Vx radical on the right hand side, we shall get the equation (2) ; then, ddu _ / 3 1\ l,1 +4 ‘ !&)' dx? = r«3 c?/“* tdt fldx , 3 The inclination of the curve to the absciss being incon- and to the distance of its centre of gravity conjointly, siderable, it will not differ sensibly from a portion of a har- that is, to (e—x) % (e—x), so that if the second fluxion

CARPENTRY. 156 Carpentry, at tile fixed end be as it will elsewhere be as of carpentry as a mechanical art, or to describe the various Carpen s—(e—xf (dxf; and the corresponding first fluxions being ways of executing its different w-orks, suited to the varie- 'w-Y7 of materials employed, the processes which must be e*xdx and